The Arthur Miller’s drama “Death of an Agent” premiere opens on Saturdays February 24, 2024.
Arthur Miller’s traveling agent Willy Loman, has been present on the world’s stages since 1949. The play’s ongoing success is due to the fact that for decades it have had been able to actually identify folks daily’s life.
In relation to the play, director Róbert Alföldi is concerned with who and what does Hungary of our time promise today?
Willy Loman has been in full force working over 35 years same place. He is a powerful man who although constantly thinking about what and how to do things better always running into walls -and-walls. Fights his whole life in the hope to a better, more successful future, and to fulfill his goal even reaching his elder years … constantly fails.
He doesn’t have the means to create a proper life for his family. But instead of facing his mistakes, he lies about reality. Loman as two sons and Linda is his wife. Business is getting worse. His boss humiliates him, one of his sons is interested in women and the other in stealing. The hopelessness and loss of illusion appearing in the drama ask the viewer the question, do we lie about our lives in the same way as Willy Loman does?
The new translation by Bence Bíró, became very dense material, in which it is striking how the characters carry decades old grievances and the emotions they arouse because of the unspoken problems. This is a real family story, deeply painful.
Miller’s drama will be staged by main actors of the play: András Stohl – Móni Balsai – Tibor Fehér – Bence Szécsi.
The play is in Hungarian language.
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