“Clare Higgins gives the most moving account of unconditional love I have ever seen on stage” 
--  The Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer  
 
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

Four (4) stars
 

“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

Four (4) stars

“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

Four (4) stars

“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

Four (4) stars

“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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Death of a Salesman is a hit. Tony award-winning Brian Dennehy makes his West End debut as Willy Loman, in Robert Falls’ production of Death of a Salesman alongside British theatre and television stars Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton & Hecuba) and Douglas Henshall. Written by the legendary Arthur Miller, whose other plays include The Crucible, All My Sons and A View From the Bridge, Death of a Salesman.  Now playing at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.  Produced by Delphi Productions, David Richenthal, Marshall.  Toby Simkin.  Students, teachers, essay, drama, dramatic, Olivier, award, Saleman, Salesman, Arthur Millers playwright and author.