Death of a Salesman

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

Don Warrington (Willy Loman), Maureen Beatie (Linda Loman), Ashley Zhangazha (Biff Loman), Rupert Hill, Tom Hodgkins, Milton Lopes, Rina Mahoney, Will Merrick, Buom Tihngang, Trevor A Toussaint, Elizabeth Twells

Creatives/Company

Author: Arthur Miller
Producer: Royal Exchange Theatre
Director: Sarah Frankcom
Design: Leslie Travers
Lighting: Jack Knowles
Sound: Pete Malkin