"All My Sons" Audition for the Theater

Joe, 60s, is a down-to earth, not-well-educated, very successful businessman who can be canny and charming. He was exonerated after being charged with knowingly shipping defective aircraft cylinder heads from his factory during World War II. For over three years he has placed the blame on his partner and former neighbor, Steve Deever, although he himself committed the crime. When the truth comes out, Joe justifies his actions by claiming that he did it for his family.

Kate is a strong wife and loving mother in vehement denial of Joe's guilt. She refuses to believe that her eldest son, Larry, is dead even though he has been MIA for three years. She maintains that Ann Deever who returns for a visit at the request of Larry's brother Chris is still "Larry's girl" and also believes that he is coming back.

Chris is their educated, articulate, idealistic 2nd son who returned home from World War 11 two years before the play begins. He works for his father but his heart is not in the business. He has summoned Ann Deever to the Keller house in order to ask her hand for marriage, but they're faced with the obstacle of Kate's unreasonable conviction that Larry will someday return. Chris idolizes his father, sure that Joe is not guilty.

Ann arrives at the Keller home having shunned her "guilty" father since his imprisonment. Throughout the play, Ann is often referred to as beautiful, and she is insightful and articulate. She was Larry Keller's fiancée before his disappearance but has accepted his fate. She hopes that the Kellers will consent to her marriage to Larry's brother, Chris, with whom she has had corresponded by mail for two years.

George, Ann's brother, is a successful New York lawyer, veteran, and childhood friend of Chris's. After finally visiting his father in jail, he realizes his dad's innocence and becomes enraged at the Kellers. He returns to save his sister from her marriage to Chris, causing the central confrontation.

Jim is a successful doctor, but is frustrated with the stifling domesticity of his life. He wants to become a medical researcher but continues in his job as it pays the bills. He is a close friend to the Keller family and spends a lot of time in their backyard.

Sue is Jim's attractive wife, worried about losing her looks, needling and dangerous, but affectionate. She too is a friend of the Keller family. Sue confronts Ann about of Chris for what Sue see as his idealism's bad influence on her husband.

Frank just older than Chris, was always one year ahead of the draft, so he never served in World War II. Instead he stayed home and married George Deever's former sweetheart, Lydia. He believes in horoscope and tells Kate that Larry must still be alive, because the day he died was meant to be his "favorable day".

Lydia, mid-20s, is a pretty, lively neighbor who was George's love interest before the war. after he went away, she married Frank and they soon had three children. She is a model of cheerful domesticity.