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Isn't it better to feel that what you have came to you because of something special you can do? Something, something... inside you? Don't you have to know what that thing is?
The Man Who Had All the Luck encompasses the same great creativity and values identified in Miller’s other masterpieces of that early period of his work. It remained one of his least known plays for more than fifty years until it was revived in 2000 and staged thereafter in several productions. The Man Who Had All the Luck was inspired by a story once told to Miller and questions how one man can fail and another, though no less capable, can prosper in life. It sits confidently beside the other more famous works that followed such as Death of a Salesman and All My Sons – both staged at the Lyceum in recent years.
Set during the Depression, the play is a moral drama that questions the American Dream and centres around David Beeves, who is seemingly immune to disaster and wonders when his luck will catch up with him. However, his good fortune seems to highlight the tragedies of those around him as he tries desperately to find justification behind his successes. David’s quest for validation of his identity results in a deepening paranoia that questions the existence of God and meaning in life.
Directed by John Dove, whose previously acclaimed productions at the Lyceum include Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (2007) and Death of a Salesman (2004), The Man Who Had All the Luck is a powerful and tragic drama concerned with human freedom, centred on an American family struggling to find reason in their world.