![]() ![]() He was 17 years old when the Wright Brothers flew their first rickety plane on a North Carolina beach. It’s a world that Willy Loman, played by Bruce Cromer, can’t comprehend. He wrote about savage family conflicts, about the moral struggles of post-World War II society and the unfathomably different world that was emerging in mid-century America. Miller wrote about American life in ways that few of his contemporaries did. Some of the writing is grandly poetic and there is exposition that unfolds more leisurely than we are accustomed to today.īut the heart of this play, the story about a man whose life and dreams are crumbling, is as profoundly tragic today as it was in 1949. Predictably, the script is filled with phrases that sound awkward to our 2015 ears. It was before the modern-day push for women’s rights and our wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq. ![]() ![]() This was before the modern Civil Rights movement, before computers and electronic communications. Thought there is much about the characters’ daily lives that resemble ours, the society they live in is wildly different. Miller’s play opened in 1949 – 66 years ago. So it was with more than a little apprehension that I wandered into Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Friday evening to see the opening of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” So do social mores and even the styles of theatrical expression. The passage of time can be very unforgiving to plays. ![]()
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