‘You leave the theatre in no doubt you have witnessed a great, possibly THE great American tragedy’

The Daily Telegraph

‘One of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theatre’

New York Times
  

Death Of A Salesman is one of the great plays of the twentieth century which changed the landscape of contemporary theatre.

Veteran salesman Willy Loman is used to spending his life ‘riding on a smile and a shoeshine’, but recently things haven’t been so good. He seems to have lost his golden touch; his grown-up sons, Biff and Happy, no longer idolise him as they used to and he is haunted by missed opportunities and a troubled past. His wife Linda is struggling to aid her increasingly disturbed husband, as she tries to hold the family together and keep Willy from descending further into desperation. But as the truth of Willy and his sons’ imperfect past begins to unravel, Willy starts to lose faith in the two things he believes in: his family, and, in Miller’s words, his need ‘to leave a thumbprint somewhere on the world’.

Death Of A Salesman burst upon the international scene in 1949 and won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, becoming a benchmark for modern theatre.
    
Following the outstanding success of our ‘Miller at the Octagon’ season in Spring 2006, we are delighted to have secured the rights to present Death Of A Salesman this Spring 2007.

     
This production has an extensive associated education programme including workshops, a teachers’ pack and INSET sessions for secondary school teachers.  Call activ8 on 01204 556501 for more information.