![]() ![]() I’ve never read it, but I really don’t think I want to do it right now. He did a great job, but I must admit I had trouble concentrating at times. A famous star (whose name I can’t remember) played Willy. At the age of 63, he has lost his salary and is working only on commission, and on this trip has failed to sell anything. Judith Weston, The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques. I saw a very good production of this play. Act 1 Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, returns home to Brooklyn early from a sales trip. ![]() If the play resonated in America in 1949, it is much more relevant today than ever. The death of a salesperson is rightly seen as a parable of the American dream, the constitutional right idea, and ideal of the pursuit of happiness interpreted as business success and wealth. Willy Loman, the pathetic peddler, and the great dreamer, talks to himself as he tries to come to terms with his utter failure as husband, father, and salesman. Arthur Miller captioned Death of a Salesman “Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem.” In the Ashkenaz Festival production now showing at the Studio Theater at the Toronto Center for the Arts, the conversations are not so much private as internal. ![]()
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