Death of a Salesman

Play :: show/work:S2975, production/tour:T01548408963

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6 Oct 98 to 24 Oct 98

Death of a Salesman Play :: listing:L128797253, production:T01548408963, show:S2975, venue: V552

Lyric Theatre Belfast Belfast

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Veteran salesman Willy Loman is used to spending his life 'riding on a smile and a shoeshine', but recently things haven't been so good. He seems to have lost his golden touch; his grown-up sons, Biff and Happy, no longer idolise him as they used to and he is haunted by missed opportunities and a trouble past. His wife Linda is struggling to aid her increasingly disturbed husband, as she tries to hold the family together and keep Willy from descending further into desperation. But as the truth of Willy and his sons' imperfect past begins to unravel, Willy starts to lose faith in the two things he believes in: his family, and, in Miller's words, his need 'to leave a thumbprint somewhere on the world'. Death of a Salesman burst upon the international scene in 1949 and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, becoming a benchmark for modern theatre.
Performers Bernard Kay (Willy Loman), Carole Moore (Linda), David Parnell (Biff), Mark O'Halloran (Happy), Miceal McBrian (Bernard), Grainne McCann (The Woman), Elliott Houston (Charley), Gordon Fulton (Uncle Ben), Richard Orr (Howard), Niki Doherty (Jenny), Stephen Madison (Stanley), Abigail McGibbon (Miss Forsythe). Author Arthur Miller. Director David Grant.