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Who Said It?

Check your knowledge of events in the play.

 

Who said what and to whom?

What was the context?

Joe Keller

" Don't look at me like that, he didn't tell me any more than he told you ".

 

Chris Keller

" We've made a terrible mistake with Mother… being dishonest with her. That kind of thing always pays off, and now it's paying off ".

 

George Deever

" The court didn't know your father! But you know him. You know in your heart Joe did it. "

 

Frank Lubey

" Larry was born in August. He'd been twenty-seven this month. And his tree blows down. "

 

NOTE:

Images below are from the 2010 West End production of All My Sons  at the Apollo Theatre, London.                  Photographs: © Nobby Clark 2010

 

" Everybody was in such a hurry to bury him. I said not to plant it yet ". 

Kate Keller
Ann Deever

" I'm not here out of a blue sky, Chris. I turned my back on my father... ". 

Dr Jim Bayliss

" ...when you marry, never—even in your mind—never count your husband’s money. "

 

Sue Bayliss

" Research pays twenty-five dollars a week minus laundering the hair shirt. You've got to give up your life to go into it. "

 

Lydia Lubey

" It’s so strange—Annie’s here and not even married. And I’ve got three babies. I always thought it’d be the other way around. "

 

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