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...Death of A Salesman is still playing at Tufts Arena Theater, but no matter. Wait till it's on t.v. again with Cobb and Dunnock. It's too good a play to fool around with. The intransigent can call 623-3880 if they want more info...
There are a few plays which are so starkly conceived and finely wrought by the author that one expects them to burn star-like upon the stage with their own illumination, with little more help from their actors than a faithful rendition. Death of a Salesman is such a play. Arthur Miller has fashioned Willy Loman on paper at once so palpable and so evocative that he has a real presence in two dimensions even before he has been thrust into the third. Audiences do not come to a new production of Death in hopes of being shown an unsuspected...
...very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never was a salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell," intolerably painful. But Goodman plays Willy as a man of no more substance than the dreams he spins...
Death of a Salesman is getting its zillionth production over at Tufts Arena Theater. The Arthur Miller is as American as apple pie, and undeniably a great play. It's very emotionally and theatrically demanding, though, and it's hard to think of this production doing poor Willy Loman justice. If you've never seen Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock do the play on stage or on television, you might be satisfied with the treatement it gets up in Medford. You can find out for $3.50 at 8:15 tonight and tomorrow...
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's tragedy of the common man, has already had its definitive production that everybody has had a chance to see on television, but the Tufts Arena is giving the play a go-round any way. No quarrel with Tufts' choice of plays, but Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock are a very hard act to follow. If by some quirk you've never seen this before, see it now. It premiers Wednesday at 8:15. Admission is $3.50, $2 for students on Thursdays...