ARTHUR Miller’s first hit play All My Sons is coming to Salisbury Playhouse next month.

Based on a true story, it centres on a family living in the American Midwest shortly after the end of the Second World War. Joe and Kate Keller’s pilot son Larry is missing-in-action and presumed dead by everyone but his mother. Despite their heartbreak, the family leads a comfortable life thanks to Joe’s successful career as a partner in a machine shop building fighter plane parts.

But when a series of revelations about Joe’s past comes to light, their carefully constructed world comes crashing down with dramatic and devastating consequences.

“All My Sons is fundamentally about a family living a big lie,” said director Michael Buffong. “And it’s about how this lie is suppressed and kept going and colluded with.

“The themes it touches on are those of loyalty, guilt and betr- ayal; the big themes that affect us all.”

The huge success of the play, which was written by Miller in 1947, won him his first Tony award.

This year marks the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth All My Sons is presented by the Talawa Theatre Company, Britain’s primary black-led touring theatre company.

Ray Shell, who appeared in The Bodyguard and Starlight Express, and Doña Croll, whose television credits include Doctors and The Ice Cream Girls, lead the cast. All My Sons comes to the Main House at Salisbury Playhouse as part of a national tour from Tuesday, March 3 to Saturday, March 7 at 7.30pm with matinee performances on Thursday and Saturday at 2.15pm.

Tickets are available from the Salisbury Playhouse ticket office on 01722 320333 or by going to salisburyplayhouse.com.