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Keach's Hamlet, in the current New York Shakespeare Festival production at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, is not the brooding surgeon of his agonized soul, not a raging, grieving mourner at the yawning grave of all existence. Instead he is a kind of Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper...
...idealist ashamed of having survived the war; material possessions sicken him, particularly if they have been acquired in the "merchants of death" fashion by profiting from the war. Miller concentrates on two shifting relationships: between Chris and his girl, and between Chris and his father. Joe Keller (like Willy Loman) had to compromise in order to succeed; and his son Chris is overwhelmed by the revelation of paternal guilt. How can he marry the daughter of a man who was imprisoned because of his father's perjury? Miller solves this impasse with a heavy does of melodrama which mars...
Stopping over in Bangkok, Dramatist Arthur Miller speculated that if Willy Loman, the frustrated hero of Miller's tragic Death of a Salesman, were around today, he would be a member of the Silent Majority...
...Although O'Neill's play is set in the back room of Harry Hope's bar- "What is it? It's the No Chance Saloon. It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Cafe." -during the summer of 1912, it is quite easy to imagine Miller's Willy Loman as well as Albee's George and Martha in quite the same milieu. Iceman -along with the two more familiar war-horses of the American theatre-is suffused with the mist of many pipe dreams. Harry Hope, who hasn't stepped outside of his establishment since the death...
...King Lear that is by far the best work that the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered, Lee J. Cobb gives the finest performance of a lengthy and distinguished acting career. A graduate of the militantly proletarian Group Theater of the late '30s, he was the quintessential Willy Loman in Broadway's first production of Death of a Salesman. Conventionally cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite...