Synopsis:
The play tells the story of a young man named David Beeves who has the perhaps unlucky fortune of getting everything his heart desires. Everything always goes his way, while the fortunes of his friends and family rise and fall like those of average people. The pressure of when he too might fall pushes him to the edge of sanity as he struggles to understand and control his fate. Arthur Miller wrote the play in 1940, which takes place in 1938 during the time the nation was struggling towards the end of the Depression and Europe was beginning war. In 1944, The Man Who Had All the Luck became Arthur Miller's first broadway production.