Ken Baltin crumbles beautifully as Willy Loman.

Their packaged performance makes me wish Miller had written more about these characters so we could follow up with them after the curtain drops. The supporting cast is equally well matched. The ebb and flow of familial pretend stability to realized tragedy matches the script seamlessly. Akin is moodily alluring as his Biff fluxes manically throughout the performance. Joseph Marrella is first charming and then dastardly as Happy. The actors have a great chemistry and react to each so naturally one might think they were a family off stage as well as on. It is the same cut and dried script that generations have come to love with a few spins that make it new and poignant. This is a fantastic production – the best of theirs I’ve seen all season, which is saying a lot for a theatre that regularly that creates solid art. ( Boston) There is so much that The Lyric’s production of Death of a Salesman gets right. We are all partners in the American Dream and parties to the conspiracy of silence surrounding the fact that failures must by definition outnumber successes, given our cultural ground rules and or singular interpretations of the words ‘success’ and ‘failure’.” “Willy’s failure is our failure, for we are also involved in the cult of success, and we, too, measure men by occupational attainment rather than by some sympathetic calculus of the whole human being. Presented by Lyric Stage Co of Boston (40 Years)įrom the program notes: Robert N.

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