By Patrick Marmion for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:24 BST, 23 April 2019 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 23 April 2019
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Arthur Miller’s 1947 play about an American family whose eldest son went missing during the Second World War can deliver a hefty emotional punch.
It has a harrowing sense of its characters going to hell in a handcart. For an audience, it can feel like we’re going to need to buckle up if we’re to make it home for Horlicks.
I’m not sure I ever felt much troubled by Jeremy Herrin’s stellar new production featuring Sally Field, Jenna Coleman, Bill Pullman and Colin Morgan.
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Each of these impressive actors seems capable of delivering a mighty performance – but equally there are times when they feel like they are doing their own private turn.
Pullman is always good to watch as the self-made businessman father who’s dodged jail for manufacturing faulty aeroplanes.
The actor is best known for playing the President in the Independence Day films and here he’s an impressive bundle of tics – rolling a shoulder, adjusting his pants and muttering (sometimes inaudibly) to keep his guilt at bay.
But mostly he squeezes his face into an inscrutable smile as though defying anyone tough enough to put him out of his misery.
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