Today I watched the 1983 Beijing Renyi drama performance "The Death of a Salesman"
Sweet Tea Three-Minute Play-within-a-Play Performance "Death of a Salesman"
Willie Lohman, a salesman who was so tired, he came home carrying two heavy, sample boxes as if he had come to the end of his life. Only his wife Linda knew him, cared for him, and did everything she could to maintain his dignity, hoping to give him some courage and confidence to live on. However, none of this helps. While chasing his ideals and dreams throughout his life, humiliation, fatigue and unmotivity at work constantly plagued him, and as his son grew up, he fantasized that his son would complete those dreams. But everything is always floating in the dream and real dilemma of getting better.
Willie never compromised and constantly demanded that life give him meaning, value, and glory. Willie was so unwise about his son's education that Biff grew up "rebelling" against what Willie had been doing all his life and the material successes he admired. Biff inherited Willie's ideals, and at the same time he was very sober, so he was the most twisted, the most struggling, and had to vent through stealing.
His brother, Ben, is a survivor of the American Dream and influenced Willie. In Willie's mind, his brother, the wealthy creator, was a free man with all the power of an adventurer, a spirit of solitude and joy.
At Willie's funeral, Darlene said she didn't understand. I didn't understand it either, I just saw that it was a tragedy. But I don't know who to blame for this tragedy.
"Today, we paid the last instalment of the house, today, my dear. However, there was no one in the house anymore. It's all paid off, we're free. Free. Free. Free..."
Everything is always floating in the dream and real dilemma of gradually getting better.
This is the most appropriate evaluation I felt after watching the drama for more than two hours.
(ps: Sweet Tea's three-minute "Death of a Salesman" clip in Miss Steven, I think it's also worth watching.) ）