In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut
with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged
six weeks later with the final script of 'Death of a Salesman' - a painful
examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following
year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre.
In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure antihero, Miller himself
defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not
have a grip on the forces of life'.

This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.