Details

Veteran salesman Willy Loman is used to spending his life 'riding on a smile and a shoeshine', but recently things haven't been so good. He seems to have lost his golden touch; his grown-up sons, Biff and Happy, no longer idolise him as they used to and he is haunted by missed opportunities and a trouble past. His wife Linda is struggling to aid her increasingly disturbed husband, as she tries to hold the family together and keep Willy from descending further into desperation. But as the truth of Willy and his sons' imperfect past begins to unravel, Willy starts to lose faith in the two things he believes in: his family, and, in Miller's words, his need 'to leave a thumbprint somewhere on the world'. Death of a Salesman burst upon the international scene in 1949 and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, becoming a benchmark for modern theatre.

Cast/Performers

Philip Jackson, Lex Shrapnel, Marion Bailey, Nick Barber, Sarah Ball, Russell Bentley, Tomm Coles, Christopher Ettridge, Tom Hodgkins, Poppy Roe, Adam Venus, Maya Wasonwicz

Creatives/Company

Author: Arthur Miller
Producer: West Yorkshire Playhouse
Director(s): Sarah Esdaile, Terry King (fight)
Design: Francis O'Connor
Lighting: Chris Davey
Music: Simon Slater
Musical Director: Simon Slater
Sound: Mic Pool
Other: Charmian Hoare (voice coatch)