All My Sons – starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu – is excruciating in its unrelenting, utterly captivating intensity

In a flash of light, horizontal wind howling, a symbolic tree, the focal point of the scant stage, creeks to the ground. Felled, the tree is omnipresent for the production, intersecting the Ohio backyard of the Keller family. But this is no ordinary tree, this is Larry’s tree – Larry, the son of wheeler-dealer Joe Keller…