In their lifetimes they shared a mutual respect and admiration. In their work, they wrote with Promethean courage and Euripidean authority against the poisoning of the American Dream.
It is something of a masterstroke, therefore, that the Lyceum should call upon its associate artist, director John Dove (creator of a string of fine Miller productions), to direct Of Mice And Men, Steinbeck's powerful play of drifting farm labourers in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
