Final

Play: Death of a Salesman

Scene Choice: Final scene ; funeral scene

Characters apparent: Lina (wife) and Biff (son)

Director’s Vision: The director’s vision is to create a stage that makes people feel comforted by darkness. Drawing from the ideas of Brecht and Artaud, the Director wants the scene to make people feel concerned for the situation at hand. Some humor can be shown by Biff picking up the money. Mourning and sadness can be shown by Linda over Willy’s grave.

Setting: The setting is at a cemetary. The stage will depict open land. Willy’s gravestone has a large lump or hill of dirt. Everything else is plain.

Set design: Pile of dirt in one place on any place on stage. For this, the direction cabe Stage Center Left. Biff will be Upper Left Stage.

• This is while Linda is focused on her thing, Biff will be focused on his thing at dufferin parts of the stage than Linda.

Lighting: The lighting used will be

• Red light
• Orange light
• White light

The lighting used is to create a warm feeling, that really pulls emotions and makes you almost scared.

Other color aspect: The walls, seats, everything will be black (black box) Ideally there could be a roof so its a real box. * Then I could add a rain bar and there could be rain on the stage. Biff and Linda will also be wearing all black.

Costuming:

Biff will have the suit on that he said he stole. It’ll be a black suit, with nice stitching and pockets on the outer front of the jacket.

Lida will be wearing something long and draped. She will be laying over Willy’s grave so the draping should be able to fall effortlessly the grave.

Props: Linda will hold a flower in her hand. A single flower. Biff will be crouched down on the floor, scraping up money wich her is in the middle of.

Sound: Yelling, laughing, and crying from Linda should be heard. Linda will do this in bursts. When linda isn’t be loud. The sound of Biff sweeping up money should be heard by the audience.

Body and facial language: Linda should have a range of faces she makes. But her body should lye still. Linda can give blank stares, faces of distress, crying faces, (etc.). Biff should have a blank face the whole time.

• The Director would like to make a note that this scene should feel as if the audience has no choice but to watch. By putting it in theater in the round, the audience can view the scene as more realistic. This of course can drive the audience insane because of the Brecht like inputs on the scene. The Director hopes, much like Brook, that the audience leaves with new thoughts and that the next audience will come in with a clean slate to have their minds shaped by new ideas once again. Death of a Salesman is a great play to manipulate and the Director hopes that the scene chosen can be done justice.