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ARTHUR MILLER'S DEATH OF A SALESMAN evokes the same sort of feelings as the stinking down-and-out crazies in a train station: pity and also revulsion. One pities Willy Loman and his family for their failures, but their devastation is repellant. The original production provoked strong emotion, and director David Wheeler has breathed the same fiery power into the current show...
...Fraser playes Willy Loman, the aging salesman, and he rivets us with a powerful performance. Willy is effective because he utterly fails to understand, despite an earnest search, why his life has turned sour. Miller carefully inserts a few segments from Willy's past that vividly expose the story of his wasted life and parade the painful truths about Willy's life, built on self-delusion. This dreamworld derails as he starts repeatedly running off the road while traveling on his weekly sales trips to New England. After 36 years, the long-distance drives are too much...
...intense. Besides the kidding he regularly takes for having the team's only year-round tan and for having tight muscles--the source of many bad jokes--he has lately been a leader in the infamous "arm-jogger" plot. As soon as they received them from an eager salesman, the team decided the arm-joggers, hand-weights for training, were utterly worthless. So far, two batches have mysteriously disappeared, and Coach McCurdy's resulting investigation has been rather lackadaisical...
Death of a Salesman...
Death of a Salesman...