In the spring of 1948, Arthur Miller retreated
to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two
lines of a new play already fixed in his mind.
He emerged six weeks later with the final script
of "Death of a Salesman" - a painful examination
of American life and consumerism. Opening on
Broadway the following year, Miller's
extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of
modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his
destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself
defined his aim as being 'to set forth what
happens when a man does not have a grip on the
forces of life.'