by Arthur Miller
Translation: Sima Zamfir

Artistic direction:  Otto Szombati Gille
Scenography: Eliza Popescu
Premiere date: March 14, 1970

Arthur Miller's famous play investigates both the conflicts within a family and general themes such as American values, failures and illusions of the modern world. Willy Loman's drama demonstrates the price of blind faith in the American Dream, but in a distorted version of it, a false myth built around the materialism of the post-war era. Willy Loman, an unsuccessful traveling salesman, believes wholeheartedly that the man who knows how to please others will have an undoubted success in business and will acquire the material comforts offered by the modern lifestyle. This is just one of the illusions in which he strongly believes. His inability to understand the difference between dream and his own life leads to the alteration of his relationships with his wife, Linda, and with his two sons, Biff and Happy. The alternations of reality-illusion, past-present also translate into a degeneration of Willy's psychic faculties.

His effort to raise perfect sons is contradicted by reality. For Willy, Biff was the embodiment of all the possibilities of success in life. Biff's series of failures in school and in his profession, the inability to start his own business, which Willy understands as a personal affront, as a betrayal of his ambitions as a parent, alienates the son more and more from his father.

Although Willy Loman's life may seem like a series of failures (including his death by suicide while driving), playwright Arthur Miller considers his character "a very brave man, who does not suddenly stop halfway, but rushes to the end, along with his dreams."„

Distribution:

Willy Loman:  Dorel Urlățeanu emeritus artist
Linda:  Alla Tautu
Biff:  Nicolae Barosan
Happy:  Ben Dumitrescu
Bernard:  Gheorghe Stana, Ion Martin
Woman:  Doina Urlățeanu
Charlie:  Eugen Tugulea
Uncle Ben:  Mircea Olariu
Howard Wagner:  Nicholas Thomas
Jenny:  Anca Miere Chirilă
Stanley:  Marcel Segărceanu
Miss Forsythe:  Elizabeth Jar
Letta:  Ana Popa

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Agy Segărceanu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Sound: Dorel Olea