PRESS QUOTES

Daily Mail, Quentin Letts
“Fans of Arthur Miller will be in their element at this revival”
“Clare Higgins – perfect acting”
“Howard Witt excels as Loman’s one friend”
“All this will be much relished by Miller enthusiasts”

The Guardian, Michael Billington

“It has taken six years for Robert Fall’s production of Arthur
Miller’s masterpiece to reach us. But it was worth the wait as this is as
fine a rendering of the play as one could hope for: one that realises that
the key to the play lies in the world dream”
“Mark Wendland’s ingenious designs”
“Brian Dennehy plays Willy superbly”
“What Dennehy gives us is a physical giant facing up to his own
vulnerability”
“There is impeccable support from Douglas Henshall, from Howard Witt
and from Jonathan Aris”
“In the year of Miller’s death, it is good to be reminded what a great
playwright he was”

The Times, Benedict Nighingale
 “Power and pain at the cutting edge”
“Brian Dennehy’s memorable performance that builds slowly but achieves
extraordinary highs”
“A testament to the power and to the incisiveness of Arthur Miller”
“A remarkable play”

The Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer
“Brian Dennehy’s towering, Tony-award winning performance”
“A magnificent production”
“I was in the presence of a masterpiece”
“There is not a moment when one isn’t moved, gripped and at times
appalled by the sheer raging pain on stage”
“Not a performance rings false, not a word seems superfluous to
requirements”
“You leave the theatre in no doubt you have witnessed a great,
possibly THE great American tragedy”
“Robert Falls directs a superb ensemble production”
“Beautifully and fluidly designed by Mark Wendland”
“There isn’t a single weak performance”
“Clare Higgins gives the most moving account of unconditional love I
have ever seen on stage”
“This is a wonderful production, and I watched it transfixed”

Evening Standard, Nicholas de Jongh
“Salesman’s spellbinding despair”
“Brian Dennehy is spellbinding”
“Clare Higgins is beautifully affecting”
“It leaves you harrowed and drained”

The Independent, Paul Taylor

“Excellent cast”
“Overwhelming artistic conviction”
“It is hard to conceive how Falls and his team could have exerted a
greater gut-wretching power over the audience”
“Crucial to the production’s success is the success Brain Dennehy”
“Exquisitely performed”
“Clare Higgins gives a terrific, piercing unsentimentalised account of
Willy’s wife Linda”
“Douglas Henshall’s excellent Biff”
“Dennehy is devastating”

Metro, Claire Alfree

“A Guaranteed Sale”
“Robert Falls’s award-laden production”
“Brian Dennehy’s agonising, brutally unsentimental performance”
“Douglas Henshall gives a crucial performance as Biff”
“Absolutely electrifying”

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