Tag Archives: Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

Young Vic Theatre, London ****

Review of perf seen May 10, 2019:
Runs: 3hrs with a 15 min interval

© Brinkhoff Mogensburg, Sharon D Clarke (Linda Loman), Wendell Pierce (Willy Loman) - a loving couple but unhappy household...

© Brinkhoff Mogensburg, Sharon D Clarke (Linda Loman), Wendell Pierce (Willy Loman) – a loving couple but unhappy household…

This is the third production of that titan of a play, Arthur Miller’s semi-autobiographical reworking of his own family history, Death of a Salesman, I’ve seen in the past four years.

Miller is having something of a renaissance just at the moment with All My Sons, The American Clock and The Price all having been recently seen in the West End.  Continue reading

The Rubenstein Kiss

Southwark Playhouse, London ****
Runs: 2hrs 45 mins with one 20min interval.
TICKETS: Box Office: 020 7407 0234

Review: by Carole Woddis of performance seen Mar 21, 2019:

© Scott Rylander, Ruby Bentall (Esther Rubenstein) & Henry Proffit (Jakob Rubenstein) - political fire and passion, shared belief in a better world...

© Scott Rylander, Ruby Bentall (Esther Rubenstein) & Henry Proffit (Jakob Rubenstein) – political fire and passion, shared belief in a better world…

Public and private lives intertwine in James Phillips’s The Rubenstein Kiss, first seen at Hampstead Theatre in 2005. Continue reading

Death of a Salesman

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (****)

© Manuel Harlan, Nicholas Woodeson as Willy Loman

© Manuel Harlan, Nicholas Woodeson as Willy Loman

You can never tire of Arthur Miller’s great elegy to the ordinary working man, crushed by the system, Death of a Salesman (1949). Continue reading

Incident at Vichy

Finborough Theatre, London (***)

© Scott Rylander, Henry Wyrley-Birch (Major), Timothy Harker (Professor Hoffman

© Scott Rylander, Henry Wyrley-Birch (Major), Timothy Harker (Professor Hoffman

There is no doubting the aptness of this revival by Phil Willmott – the first in 50 years – of the play that the great New York Times critic, Harold Clurman called `one of the most important plays of our time.’ Continue reading