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...(FT) What if Willy Loman used LinkedIn?...
...This spring, London’s Young Vic theatre will mark the play’s 70th birthday with a new staging and another leading actor will take on the role of the modern Everyman, Willy Loman....
...And Tobias Menzies is quietly outstanding as Lucas, a man whose inability to blend in and take part marks him out as easy prey....
...The masks intermittently worn by Willy and his wife Linda (Kayla Asbell) further mark them out as ciphers of everyday doom and alienation....
...This year we mark the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death. She died aged 41. Last year we celebrated Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death. He died aged 52....
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...Hassell makes this almost as much Biff’s tragedy as his father’s, showing how he has inherited Willy’s bullheaded pride while Sam Marks as brother Happy got the blarney gene....
...According to Jim, Ray Balsillie viewed himself as an outsider in the upbeat town; he gradually adopted a forlorn, Willy Loman–like air of defeat....
...In Death of a Salesman (1949), Arthur Miller wrote of his tragic hero Willy Loman: “He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine....
...But Day has already made her mark, not least with her empowering conclusion from her experience: “You don’t have to have permission to make your art.”...
...Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is perhaps the best example of this shift from the great history plays, centring as it does on Willy Loman, or “low man”....
...“The metaphor of a man masturbating at his computer is the Willy Loman of our decade,” says Mark Schwartz of the Masters and Johnson Clinic, referring to the spiritually rudderless protagonist of Arthur...
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