Death of a Salesman
Lyttelton - National Theatre
4.7/5 based on 31 reviews (read reviews)- Opens: To be announced -
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Death of a Salesman description
Death of a Salesman is the story of a man who believed the terms he was offered and finds, at sixty-three, that they were never real.
Willy Loman has sold for the same company for decades and can no longer manage the road. At home his wife Linda holds the household together while his sons Biff and Happy circle a version of themselves their father invented and they cannot live up to. Over two days the play moves between the present and Willy's memory, until the gap between the life he describes and the life he has closes.
Arthur Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. This production is staged in the Lyttelton Theatre in repertory with A Whistle in the Dark, part of the National Theatre's return to true repertory playing, so the same company appears in both.
The play is by Arthur Miller and the director is Rebecca Frecknall, whose Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club won the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and who directed A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke at the Almeida.
Paul Mescal, an Olivier Award winner for A Streetcar Named Desire and an Academy Award nominee for Aftersun, leads the repertory company with Ciarán Hinds, Peter Corboy, Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Ryan Donaldson, Aisling Loftus and Julian Moore-Cook. The cast also includes Monica Dolan, an Olivier and BAFTA winner, and Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer-winning author of August: Osage County, making his UK stage acting debut.
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