Death of a Salesman - August 01

Randall Theatre Company

 End Notes 

Notes from the Director - Tyler Ward

 

"I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke."

There is something ironic about this production of this show. One of the main themes it addresses is the danger of the unrealized dream, how we can live so strongly in the promise of a better day, that we forget who were are now, and our lives slip away from us.
 
But it is exactly that kind of dream that is making this show come together. A group of theatre artists, all ages and experience levels, deciding that the dream of this show is worth the cost of making it happen. We are using our dream to tell the story of a family torn apart by dreams. I have never seen both sides of one coin so clearly before.
 
For me, the chief message of Death of a Salesman is a warning about the destructive nature of the American Dream. How, if we buy into that Horatio Alger nonsense of success being based purely on drive and pluck, we will be left broken and disappointed. However, if we can actually sit back, look at our lives for what they are, and not what our society tells us they should be, we will find the joy and pleasure in life sitting there, waiting for us to see it. 
 
This production is designed to give the audience as much access as possible to what these characters are going through, allowing them to join in with the continual cycle of hope and loss that Arthur Miller has provided us with. And maybe, just maybe, it can help us all sit back, and take the pleasure from life that is there, just waiting for us.
 
 

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