Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Omschrijving
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut
with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged
six weeks later with the final script of 'Death of a Salesman' - a painful
examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following
year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre.
In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure antihero, Miller himself
defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not
have a grip on the forces of life'. Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and a scathing indictment of the ultimate failure...
