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...killing himself to pay off the debt his life has incurred. The remainder of the play is a "requiem," a eulogy for Willy which demands that "attention must be paid." In the "Theater of Guilt," as critic Robert Brustein has dubbed it, the audience must empathize with Willy, the "everyman...
...deploys 24 major actors, signals large aspiration and a desire to present a panoramic vision of life in what everyone is now pleased to think of as the heart of American darkness. Los Angeles, the city that has in a wink of history's eye ceased to be Everyman's Great Utopia, has become instead everyone's Great Dystopia...
...tried to keep the everyman, who was ambitious and wanted to conquer the world and had the American dream handed to him and finds out that it's rotten inside, then has to find a way to outwit both the lawmakers and the lawbreakers," he said
Matura transforms the young man from Synge's scrawny and unlikely hero into a tall, well-built leading man, played with wide-eyed charm by the aptly named Victor Love. This makes his tale more plausible if less of a revolutionist's lesson in what Everyman might achieve. Gerald Gutierrez's cunningly coarse staging provides comic turns for most of the cast, notably Antonio Fargas as a rumshop owner and Michele Shay as a lustful voodoo practitioner...
Even in Alberto-ville, Everyman Lives...