Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Wendell Pierce (Willy), Sharon D Clarke (Linda), Sope Dirisu (Biff Loman), Natey Jones (Happy Loman), Victoria Hailton-Barritt (The Woman / Jenny), Carole Stennett (Miss Forsythe), Ian Bonar (Bernard), Trevor Cooper (Charley), Joseph Mydell (Ben Loman), Matthew Seadon-Young (Howard Wagner / Stanley), Nenda Neurer (Letta), Femi Tomowo (Willy Loman's father / Musician), Emmanuel Ogunjinmi (understudy Biff / Happy)

Creatives/Company

Author: Arthur Miller
Director(s): Marianne Elliott, Miranda Cromwell, Yarit Dor (fight director), Charlotte Sutton (casting director)
Design: Anna Fleischle
Lighting: Aideen Malone
Sound: Carolyn Downing
Musical Director: Femi Temowo