meticulous caregiving could have saved the mink, not luck. He then departs. Hester asks David to come up for bed, and as thunder roars in the distance, he stares out the window with apprehension. Analysis Christopher Bigsby states that this is a study of human freedom. Beyond offering an account of a man's decline into madness, and eventual redemption, it explores the degree to which many of the characters become complicit in their own irrelevance, the degree to which they collude in the idea of man as a victim, as a subject of cosmic ironies." Production history The Man Who Had All The Luck originated as an unpublished novel manuscript, completed in 1943; Miller adapted it for the theater the following year and it became his first play to be staged on Broadway. Directed by Joseph Fields, it opened on November 23, 1944, at the Forrest Theatre, where it ran for only four performances. Karl Swenson starred as David Beeves. The play's failure nearly derailed Miller's career, and it remained one of his least-known works until 1990, when the Bristol Old Vic staged The Man Who Had All The Luck with Iain Glen in the lead role. The production was directed by Paul Unwin. It later transferred to the Young Vic in London. In 2000, director Dan Fields mounted a production that ran for seven weeks at the Ivy Substation theater in Culver City, California. The following year, a production was staged by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, which had presented the American premiere of Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. After 15 previews, a Broadway revival directed by Scott Ellis opened on May 1, 2002, at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 62 performances. The cast included Chris O'Donnell as David Beeves, with Samantha Mathis, Mason Adams, James Rebhorn, Richard Riehle, David Wohl, and Sam Robards, whose performance garnered him Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2006, Ellis was announced to be directing a feature-film adaptation of the play. The play was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in March 2008 in a production by Sean Holmes. On 25 September 2012, a UK-wide tour by Sell A Door Theatre Company, in association with Mull Theatre, started. The tour is directed by David Hutchinson and designed by Richard Evans. The tour took in the UK from Orkney Arts Theatre to Greenwich