In 1949, Demise of a Salesman received the Pulitzer Prize for drama and a Tony Award for greatest play. This weekend, the Spencer Theatre Firm brings the traditional story to Springfield. Directed by John Sivak, Demise of a Salesman stars Jim Leach as touring salesman William “Willy” Loman. The play is about within the final days of Loman, “who can’t perceive how he did not win success and happiness. By way of a sequence of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived together with his spouse, his sons and his enterprise associates, we uncover how his quest for the ‘American Dream’ stored him blind to the individuals who really liked him.” The Hoogland Middle calls the play “an exhilarating work of deep and revealing magnificence that is still one of the crucial profound traditional dramas of the American theater.”
Demise of a Salesman
Thu.-Sat., April 3-5, 7:30 p.m., and Solar., April 6, 3 p.m.
Hoogland Middle f or the Arts, LRS Theatre 1
420 S. Sixth St.
hcfta.org
217-523-2787
$20-$22
