Willy Loman is not as young as he once was, and boy is he feeling it. After half a lifetime on the road, this once successful travelling salesman is unable to keep up in a changing workplace; he’s on the brink of unemployment, and he and his wife have got bills to pay. When his drop out son Biff moves home again, Willy decides to give success one last shot. Can he prove to everyone he’s got what it takes? Read more …
All of that writing brilliance is still in evidence, but it’s not enhanced by this production.
Woodeson gives a mighty performance of a man out of time. It is a devastating portrait too of a world where apparent freedoms look cheaper by the day.
Just as it was viewed in 1949 as a Pulitzer award-winning modern classic, this visually stunning production shows how the tale of Willy Loman, an Everyman, is as powerful and pertinent today amid the radical global change in society, finance, business and politics. The Land of the Free and the pursuit of the American Dream is even more elusive than ever.
Where this production really shines is in its presentation of the domestic and the quotidian, of those relationships that are too easily taken for granted by those who spend their life, as Willy Loman does, chasing the wrong dream.
This is a great revival of a play that continues to resonate with modern-day audiences.
King's Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday June 20, 2017, until Saturday June 24, 2017. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/kings