No director worth his or her salt goes into staging the Miller classic, often ranked or rated as the greatest play of the twentieth century, lightly. Though Willy is an old-world sales rep for an apparel company, he could just as easily be a 2022 Ford executive, an ad agency account executive or any of the thousands of positions held by people trying to provide for their families and keep a non-leaky roof over the heads. Those who aren’t, or who don’t want to play the game, start their own businesses, or are doomed to a life of unmet expectations and dreams that blow away like dandelion seeds. Then, as now, succeeding as a cog in someone else’s machine often boils down to being well-liked rather than solidly competent. Willy sees the secret to success as being “well-liked.” Both things are true. “The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell,” the prosperous Charley next door tells Willy. The genius in Salesman was Miller’s capacity to capture in the post-war mid-1940s a truth about men, fathers, husbands seeking to get ahead and succeed that is as true today and then.

In the company’s new production of Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman, Director Michael Lluberes had the good sense to meet the Pulitzer Prize winning script where it is on its traditional terms, and stage a truly compelling and wonderful production. FLINT, MI–Patrons of the Flint Repertory Theatre have gotten used to seeing new works, and reinventions of classic and well-worn shows that cast a new luster on plays and musicals we have seen many times.

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