THE LATE HENRY MOSS Southwark Playhouse

Sam Shepard has often said that one of the great tragedies of contemporary America is that families fall apart. His first-rate thriller has considerable power and is played out in flashbacks. The story is told in his familiar raw, American-Gothic style. Moss’s younger son (Joseph Arkley) suspects his older brother (Jack Sandle) has murdered dad, a vile alcoholic monster, whom Shepard had based on his own dad, who had served in WW2 as a pilot and thought of his war pension as blood money for all the people he had killed. Mel Hillyard directs a strong cast.