"Ivo van Hove is a nothing-if-not-mercurial director: his last London outing was the much derided ( though I liked it ) avant-garde 'musical' Opening Night , which was about as big a flop as you really get in the West End these days, closing weeks early. But expectations were always high for this revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 breakthrough , because Van Hove made his own UK breakthrough with his extraordinary 2014 production of Miller's . And by Hove, he's done it again."
"To some extent the secret of his triumph here is 'cast really really good actors', foremost Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiudu, who offer two of the best stage performances of 2025. But what van Hove has done is discretely uncouple Miller's play from the naturalism that often stifles it. Running at the same length as the starry Old Vic production of a few years back but with no interval (ie about 15 minutes longer), Van Hove's production really savours the writing."
Ivo van Hove returned to Arthur Miller a decade after his landmark A View from the Bridge with a revival of Miller's 1947 breakthrough. The production features Bryan Cranston as Joe Keller and Paapa Essiudu in a powerful supporting role, delivering two of 2025's best stage performances. Van Hove rejects strict naturalism, lengthening the piece with no interval and luxuriating in peripheral characters and domestic detail. The plot traces Joe Keller's moral downfall after his business sold cracked cylinder heads to the US Air Force, causing twenty-one pilot deaths, and the wrongful conviction of his partner Steve Deever. The production savours Miller's writing and presents a quirkily poignant study of sedate suburban life scarred by war.
Read at Time Out London
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