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...Playwright Arthur Miller, the why of violence has always been dramatically crucial-whether it is a man's murder of his family benefactor (A View from the Bridge) or the suicides of Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After the Fall). So last year Miller's interest was aroused when he heard about Peter Reilly, 18, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the 1973 killing of his mother in Canaan, Conn.-not far from Miller's home. Reviewing the evidence and the confession (which Reilly made after...
...make an extraordinary man of Willy Loman goes against the grain of the text, but George C. Scott has done just that and achieved a performance of staggering impact...
...theater's only meaningful triumphs are triumphs of illusion and not replication. After the curtain rises and the houselights dim, Harry Truman is no more real in theatrical terms than Hamlet or Willy Loman or Blanche DuBois...
...actor playing Willy follow headlong each rising line without anticipating the inevitable fall, all the time that he knows he is spiralling deeper and deeper into a hole from which he will not emerge. In short it demands that an actor believe totally in the authenticity of Willy Loman, and it's never clear that Goodman does...
Linda is the force that keeps the Loman family from coming unglued long before it finally does. She is not stupid; she is not un-moved by dreams of better times, nor unaware that they shall remain little more than dreams. But as peacemaker in the family, she cannot afford the emotional flights which characterize the male members of the family. That dynamic works in the play for the same reasons it has worked in generations of families. It seems clear that Miller intended to have her function that way, and it is not at all clear why Lewis plays...