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...story revolves around Willy Loman, an aging travelling salesman whose pipe dreams haven't come true. His dream was to live the lore of the salesman on the road, known and loved wherever he travelled. Instead, he has lived the reality of a mediocre selling career with constant indebtedness while trying to conceal it all from his family with fantastical salesman's pitches. Realizing the imminence of his own failure, Willy has tried to vicariously live his dream through his oldest son, Biff, The audience enters the story when Biff, in his thirties, has failed to live...
...crucial moments of Willy's confrontation with truth. Engel perfectly understands the rhythm of the play's dramatic moments and skillfully draws emotions from the audience. The play is punctuated by emotional moments, such as the scene in which Biff exposes Willy's suicidal tendencies. He hits the rubber pipe on the table which Willy has been planning to use to kill himself. Build, BUILD, BUILD! and then SLAM! the rubber tubing is whipped out, banged on the table and a huge silence descends, a moment Engel creates so that the audience's sympathy also has time to build...
...pounce on every heightened emotion. He moves very naturally between reality and the dream sequences, assisted only by a warm light change and electronic music (which, at times, sounds suspiciously like PBS Wildlife Special accompaniment). Reinstein, funny and charismatic, is also more than prepared for moments such as the "pipe" scene. Other times, he expresses hisdisgust for the city environment in such a waythat the audience feels its own surroundings alltoo acutely...
...Paul A. Rosenberg, an assistant professor of neurology at the Medical School who works at Children's Hospital, unwittingly averted the detonation of two six-inch pipe bombs contained in a package sent to his home in Newton, the Boston Globe reported...
...walking through the tunnels, one can see the three main steam pipes lining the walls as well as a fourth pipe that carries condensate, or chilled water, back to the power plant to be reheated to steam...