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This jungle is carefully maintained by his wife Linda. They struggle menacingly out of the undergrowth only to add to the explosive mix of betrayals and failures that destroy Willy. People from Willy Loman’s life skulk in the bushes together with Willy’s own evaporated hopes and guilty secrets. He lives on handouts from his rich neighbour Charley (Michael Rastl) and puts his own abandoned hopes into his two sons – layabout Happy (André Szymanski) and kleptomaniac Biff (Bruno Cathomas).Ī forest of gum trees obscures the rear half of the stage. Disenchanted salesman Willy Loman (Thomas Thieme) is in the twilight of his career.

Here in Berlin, Miller’s themes of unemployment and the broken promises of materialism assume contemporary relevance. Sticking reasonably closely to Miller’s original script, director Luk Perceval reconceives the tragedy of the post-war American dream in post-reunification Germany. In the final week of the winter term the theatre lab went to Berlin’s famous contemporary theatre, Schaubühne, to see Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.