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Death of a Salesman

Overview of the production

At the Piccadilly Theatre for a limited season

“I don’t say he’s a great man…but he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.”

Following her recent award-winning successes on Company and Angels in America, Marianne Elliott co-directs Death of a Salesman with Miranda Cromwell, who worked as Associate Director on both shows. Together, they bring a unique vision to one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, seen through the eyes of an African-American family.

"This masterpiece resonates and devastates afresh"

Daily Telegraph ★★★★★

"A fresh revival of an old great"

The Times ★★★★★

"Fresh, compassionate and ultimately devastating"

Evening Standard ★★★★★

Performance Schedule
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm, Wednesday & Saturday 2pm

Length
3hrs (inc 20min interval)

Theatre
Piccadilly Theatre. 16 Denman Street, London, W1D 7DY

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Cast

Wendell Pierce
Willy Loman

Wendell Pierce

Sharon D Clarke
Linda Loman

Sharon D Clarke

Creative Team

Directors

Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell

Designer

Anna Fleischle

Anna Fleischle is an award–winning production set and costume designer.

THEATRE includes A Very Very Very Dark Matter, A German Life and Two Ladies at The Bridge; Much Ado About Nothing and Home, I’m Darling (also Theatr Clwyd and West End, 2019 Olivier Award Nominee For Best Set Design And Best Costume Design) at the National Theatre; Hangmen at the Royal Court, West End and on Broadway (Tony nominee, 2022, Olivier Award-winner 2016 for Best Set Design, Critics’ Circle Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Design); The Collaboration, Hamlet and Death of a Salesman (also in the West End and on Broadway, 2022) at the Young Vic; The Forest at Hampstead; 2:22 A Ghost Story, Don Juan in Soho and The End of Longing in the West End; Once Upon a One More Time at the Nederlander, Chicago; A Kind of People, Liberian Girl and The Kid Stays in the Picture (for Complicite) at the Royal Court; House of Shades, The Writer and Before the Party at the Almeida; The Way of the World at the Donmar Warehouse; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Crucible Sheffield, in the West End, on UK tour, in LA and Korea; Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic; Beware of Pity for Schaubühne Berlin/Complicité; Two Noble Kinsmen, Cymbeline and Love’s Sacrifice for the RSC; West Side Story, Blindsided, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning and Rat’s Tails at Manchester Royal Exchange; You Can See The Hills, Love and Money at Manchester Royal Exchange and the Young Vic.

OPERA includes Orfeo at Vienna Staatsoper; and Weimar Nightfall: Seven Deadly Sins for LA Philharmonic.

DANCE includes Message in a Bottle at Sadlers Wells; Second Coming for Scottish Dance Theatre; and John and Can We Talk About This? for DV8 Physical Theatre, the National Theatre and on international tour.

Anna Fleischle is a founding Member of Scene/Change, Associate Artist at the Young Vic, Board Member of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and Ambassador for PiPA.

August 2022

Sound Designer

Carolyn Downing

Theatre includes Summer and Smoke (also West End – Olivier nomination for Best Sound Design), Chimerica (also West End – Olivier Award), Carmen Disruption and Blood Wedding at the Almeida; Death of a Salesman (also West End), Blue/Orange, Blackta and After Miss Julie at the Young Vic; All My Sons at the Old Vic; The Welkin, Downstate (Steppenwolf), The Motherfucker with the Hat, Dara, Protest Song and Double Feature at the National Theatre; White Teeth at the Kiln; Mother Courage, The Producers, The House of Bernarda Alba, Much Ado About Nothing and To Kill a Mockingbird at the Royal Exchange Manchester; Me and My Girl and Fiddler on the Roof at Chichester; The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and King John for the Royal Shakespeare Company; A Woman of No Importance in the West End; Les Liaisons Dangereuses (also Broadway), Fathers and Sons, Dimetos and Absurdia at the Donmar Warehouse; The Believers, Beautiful Burnout and Love Song for Frantic Assembly; Hope, The Pass, The Low Road and Choir Boy at the Royal Court; The House That Will Not Stand and Handbagged (also West End) at the Tricycle; All My Sons on Broadway; Angels in America for Headlong; Thérèse Raquin at Theatre Royal Bath; Twelfth Night at Sheffield Crucible; Kasimir and Karoline and Fanny och Alexander at Malmö Stadsteater; and Tre Kronor at Dramaten Stockholm.

Opera includes Benjamin Dernière Nuit at Opera Lyon; How the Whale Became at the Royal Opera House; American Lulu for Opera Group; and After Dido for English National Opera. 

Exhibitions include Hut 11A: The Bomb Breakthrough at Bletchley Park; So You Say You Want a Revolution? Records & Rebels 1965–70 at the V&A; Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones at the Saatchi Gallery; Collider at the Science Museum; and Louis Vuitton: Series 3.

She has also created sound design elements for Shawn Mendes’ Illuminate tour (2017) and Louis Vuitton Ready-to-wear collection shows at the Louis Vuitton Foundation and The Louvre, Paris.

February 2020

Composer/Musical Director

Femi Temowo

Casting Director

Charlotte Sutton CDG

Voice and Dialect Coach

Hazel Holder

Fight Director and additional Movement support

Yarit Dor