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...different from any other non-residents dining in a house dining hall. We have been placed arbitrarily into dining groups by Linda Boland, a first floor proctor, without regard for our friendships. In particular, the second floor has been divided among two dining groups for the rest of the year--we may never eat in the Quad with our floormates again. Of course, Boland's entire floor is dining together, but that's another point. Moreover, dietary concerns such as the need for a kosher or vegetarian table have been ignored in this process. Most importantly, it is unfair...
...Company's production, makes his strongest artistic decision in the scenic design. Paying close attention to the "everyman" theme, Engel places the audience in a three-quarter round seating area, The kitchen is in the center of the stage space, and the two bedrooms, for Willy and his wife Linda and for the boys, are tucked into corners to the audience. This places the audience inside Willy's home instead of a position outside from which they would detachedly 'watch' the events in the household. Here the audience is made a part of the experience, so the production design serves...
Deena Mazer plays Linda Loman sweetly andendearingly. The audience is make to love her andfinds it wrenching to see her sitting on stage infearful silence during Willy's fantasticalcavortings...
...weakness of the play and, perhaps, theproduction can be seen in Linda Loman's silencesin the moments in which she is heartlessly told byher husband to "Stop interrupting!" "Death of aSalesman" was important for certain reasons whenit was written in 1945. But the passage of timehas limited its relevance, or perhaps it would bemore appropriate to say that the play isinadequately prepared for passage through time. Itno longer appeals, if it ever did, to a diverseaudience...
...thing, Miller's representation of womenis debasing and limiting. His women run a smallgamut between the 'babes' that Happy effortlesslywoos in the restaurant scene, to Linda, a wifewhose identity is completely sacrificed to herhusband's doddering dreams. She is not allowed anydreams of her own. This one-dimensional view ofwoman loses the sympathy of the female audiencemembers...