On the production, but for now I’d like to hear from the readers who have been following along with our ongoing discussion of this great American play. Has the director Mike Nichols found the key to reanimating the play for our current, economically uncertain era? As the discussion opens up in the coming weeks I’ll be sharing some of my thoughts
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Now feel free to share your thoughts on the current staging.ĭid the re-creation of the famous Jo Mielziner set frame the play for you in a new way? Did Philip Seymour Hoffman, a relatively young actor undertaking the role, bring particular insights that surprised you? It opened officially last night, and the critics, including The New York Times’s Ben Brantley, The production, since a stage production is a work in progress until opening night – and often beyond.
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While the new Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman” has been in previews, we have been discouraging readers of our series devoted to re-examining the play from giving their responses to March 16 Share Your Thoughts on the Current Production It was more important that the images were correct in their mood and textures and narrative. Headshots to create the character, but I wasn't paying attention to where they came from. It’s a composite of about four or five different images. It's a composite of images from the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery and Wikipedia Commons, public domain stuff. We can see past his world-wornĮyes and get an idea of what's happening behind the look. There's this idea that these crashes are always on his mind. The play opens and there have been a series of suspicious car accidents.
He's deteriorating mentally and physically throughout the play, and that's where the idea of him fading away came from. Like a visual metaphor, as if his head had turned into a screen. This allows you to see into Willy’s head and see where his mind is at the entire play. Most of the play you spend trying to understand the motives behind the characters' actions. Who: Nick Vidovich, Senior, Communication Design I try my best to always put a little bit of me in my pieces.
I've struggled to get my own life started out. In the last year my father has made millions and I'm working paycheck to paycheck. My father is a CEO of a company back home in Dubai. Where it has the little gray area and a wish-wash look to it, that’s sprayed water. I created this saltwater solution and sprayed it over the black mass. I dripped it onto the paper when it was damp so that it could spread easier. I dyed it with tea and coffee and then I half dried it. They're trying to become themselves and to make it, but they put up so many expectations that they can’t The charactersĪre burdened with this fantasy of the American dream, but they're not fulfilling it. When I planned this piece, that was the idea: this figure trying to survive out of this chaos, and in a sense come to life. Of a skeleton struggling to come to life from the butt of a cigarette. I previously did a series on smoking, including one piece about someone trying to quit smoking. I wanted the figure to represent a salesman, struggling and appearing from this dark mass. Who: Ashley Butler, Freshman, Illustration
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