He would rather be a farmhand than the businessman his father wants him to be. He wants to live up to his father’s expectations of him but is finding it too hard. Josh McConville plays their older son Biff. Though she knows Willy is a troubled soul, she loves him dearly. Linda is always just managing to make ends meet. The always wonderful Helen Thomson is great as Willy Loman’s long suffering wife Linda. Jacek Koman gives a powerful performance as Willy Loman, one of the theatre’s great dramatic roles. Rattray wins uniformly good performances from her cast She makes good use of the width and breadth of the large Roslyn Packer stage. Paige Rattray’s production is poignant and well considered. This was the scene where Willy’s brain has its final implosion, he covers his head in his hands, and races off the stage to do himself in, something that he has threatened to do from the play’s very commencement. There is one scene that will stay etched in my mind. Miller’s play has so many scenes that draw one in to the drama, that add to the heat of the play. Willy’s meeting with his boss doesn’t go well. Linda pressures him to talk to his boss to put him back on salary and ask him if he could be given a job in New York, that he was getting too old to travel around. The couple still haven’t finished paying off the mortgage.
His wife Linda is struggling to make ends meet. His company has taken him off salary and he is now working on commission only. During this time he married his sweetheart and raised two boys. He has worked all his adult life as a travelling salesman and at his peak he was was successful. Miller’s play starts with Willy Loman’s world already starting to crumble around him. It is with this preference in mind that the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Arthur Miller’s classic 1949 play DEATH OF THE SALESMAN was a good fit.įor weary, middle-aged travelling salesman Willy Loman the great American Dream, that success and happiness can be achieved by any American who is a regular, hard working person, has always been out of reach. I love works of Sturm and Drang, those works with plenty of dramatic action and high emotionalism. I should state my preference in theatre straight away. Helen Thomson and Jacek Koman in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Arthur Millers’s ‘Death Of A Salesman’.
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