People who have acted in Death Of A Salesman.

I did a couple scenes for an acting class.
I played Willy in the scene where he went to Howard to get his job and in the scene where he talks to his wife and remembers his lover.

I also played Happy in another scene.

art isn't easy - every minor detail is a major decision -
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When I was younger, I played Biff in a professional repertory production. I got strong, positive reviews, so I was happy with what I did.

It was a great part to play, but bloody exhausting. It's really intense, and I've seen a couple of productions since where it seemed like the whole cast just shouted at each other all the way through. That's definitely *not* the way to go.

An interesting side thought:
For me, a truly good performance by the actress playing Linda, Willy's wife, can almost steal the show. And that's what happened in the first professional production I saw (that I wasn't involved in) -- it had Warren Mitchell (a remarkable British actor) as Willy, and Mel Gibson (before he hit the Hollywood big-time) as Biff, and yet for me the greatest performance on the stage was by an Australian actress called Judi Farr as Linda. Kate Reid had some lovely moments in the role of the wife and mother in this production here, but something about the direction makes me feel we never got to see her as a person in her own right. She was treated more as a functionary than as a character that held the potential for revelation. Even her farewell to Willy at the graveside was more about Willy, and the irony of his final plan also being for naught, than it was about Linda. But Judi's performance of the final scene at the graveside shone a spotlight on this woman in a way that the play hadn't done up to that point, and we all suddenly realised just how much it had cost *her* as a person as well to be Willy's wife. And I'm not just talking about her having to darn her stockings and make do with a cheaper brand of ice-box. As I remember it, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. It was one of those great moments of theatre I'll always remember, one that reminds you why you want to be involved in theatre in the first place.


You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.