8/8/2023 0 Comments Biff loman playlist![]() Both sons continue to question why he doesn’t do more, to the point that even Biff begins to call Willy a fake, much to Linda’s chagrin. ![]() Life has changed dramatically for this 63-year old man. With Willy having worked for 36 years already, he is exhausted. It is almost as if we go in and out of dream and reality, no longer able to tell what is real from the surreal and leaving the audience uneasy. Flashing back and forth between Willy’s past and the present, we catch glimpses of the mysterious woman (Victoria Hamilton-Barrit) Willy has history with. It’s a troubling scene, and Linda asks Willy to ask to be stationed in New York instead. Returning to Linda and Willy, it is revealed that the family is in dire financial straits, with Willy not even having the $120 required to pay their insurance. ![]() Both men discuss their future, dreaming, hoping for something better still to come. We then meet both of Willy’s sons in their room – the elder, ex-football star Biff (Sope Dirisu) and younger brother Happy (Natey Jones). The two look out the window, and think back to how simple life was before, seeking solace and comfort away from the complications on the modern day. Willy Loman (Pierce) enters, just home from a sales trip, but is immediately questioned by his wife Linda (Sharon D. The show features a quaint set (with hidden multi-faceted properties, as designed by Anna Fleischle) that brings audience members straight to the simplicity of the American pastoral. Set in the 1940s, fresh after the Great Depression, Death of a Salesman opens with an introduction to the cast via song (composed by Femi Temowo, and setting us in a black household). No longer is this play merely one of the failings of capitalism and those it leaves behind, but shines a spotlight on the ones who never had a chance in the first place, for whom suffered a glass ceiling on account of their skin colour, and the prejudice they face at the hands of racism dealt out by white superiors. LONDON – For anyone who’s ever studied Death of a Salesman in school, Arthur Miller’s classic play is iconic as a symbol of the American Dream crashing down, with the titular death representing everything wrong with the relentless, unforgiving capitalist economy.īut in the Young Vic’s new version directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell, the already iconic play has been elevated further still, thanks to its choice of recasting the Loman family as black, with Suits’ Wendell Pierce starring as the long-suffering Willy Loman. Arthur Miller’s classic play of the collapse of the American Dream feels urgent and racially charged in this new version by the Young Vic.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |