Death of a Salesman staged at Shaheed Bhawan

Willy Loman

enters the hall with all the earthy bravado final defeat intact in director

Ashish Shrivastava

’s gripping staging of Death of a Salesman at

Shaheed Bhawan

.

Arthur Miller

wrote about a 63-year-old man who worked hard his whole life but realizes now that his life has no more worth than his insurance policy. This play won the

Pulitzer

’s prize for drama and the Tony award for the best play.

For those who are unaware of this classic American work this a story of a salesman who has travelled his whole life for work and now is not able to cut it anymore. He was heading to New York for a business trip but doesn’t feel like going, so he returns to his home in England. He comes back to his wife and two grown kids. His children disappoint him further as they still are living as they used to when they will small. Neither of them was getting a stable job or taking life seriously. The life of this salesman is failing as neither he is doing good as a salesman and nor his family is happy. The play is very moving as a living person’s life dissolves in front of the eyes of the audience. Willy keeps thinking about people who are no more or the incidents of the past. The struggle of the person who is having a breakdown is heartbreaking.

- Farzana Patowari