Death of a Salesman

You work your whole life to pay off a house.
And when it's finally yours,
there's no one to live in it.

From Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, director Remigiusz Brzyk extracts the bitter comedy of an everyman's life - a search for fulfillment in what brings no happiness. Willy Loman is an ordinary salesman, an aging apostle of the American dream, a loyal builder of capitalism who has failed at everything in life. A cog in a vast machine of illusions, fueling the desire to have - even at the cost of being. A tragicomic figure lost in fantasies of success, denying failure, and systematically destroying what matters most to him. But the funeral was nice...

People who came of age in Poland in the early 1990s, when emerging capitalism promised that the American dream would come true here and now, are today Willy Loman's age. What was the difference between the field beds at Europa Fair and suitcases full of product samples? A franc-denominated loan versus a dollar one? Do the decades separating us from the day Miller created Loman and condemned him to death change the measure of male frustration? And how far is Generation Z, refusing to fulfill their parents' dreams, from Loman's sons - or are they the ones who are right?

Premiere: December 2, 2023 | Main Stage
Duration: 3 hours with one intermission

Author: Arthur Miller | Translation: Joanna Gorczycka | Director: Remigiusz Brzyk | Set Design: Marika Wojciechowska | Costumes: Rafał Domagała | Music: Jacek Grudzień | Graphic Identity: Ola Jasionowska | Stage Manager: Agnieszka Choińska

Cast:
Juliusz Chrząstowski (guest, actor of the National Old Theatre in Kraków) - Willy Loman
Katarzyna Żuk - Linda Loman
Maciej Kobiela - Biff Loman
Damian Sosnowski - Happy Loman
Piotr Seweryński - Charley
Sławomir Sulej - Uncle Ben
Karolina Bednarek - Howard Wagner, Letta
Edmund Krempiński - Bernard
Magdalena Kaszewska - Woman (Eve)
Rozalia Rusak (debut) - Miss Forsythe
Wojciech Oleksiewic