Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Made in Northampton 2017 season gets underway with a touring revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman featuring Tim Pigott-Smith.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, Death of a Salesman is about the cost of not being able to let go of the American dream.
Pigott-Smith, nominated in 2016 for both an Olivier and a Tony Award for the lead role in Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III, plays Willy Loman.
His wife Pamela Miles plays Linda Loman. They played opposite each other in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Old Vic in 2008, Piggot-Smith playing Henry Higgins and Miles taking the role of Mrs Eynsford Hill.
The cast also includes Sujaya Dasgupta (Jenny / Miss Forsythe), Ben Deery (Happy Loman), Geff Francis (Charley), Michael Marcus (Biff Loman), Amelia-Rose Morgan (Letta), Mitchell Mullen (Ben Loman), Thom Tuck (Howard / Stanley), Connie Walker (Miss Francis) and Michael Walters (Bernard).
Emerging director Abigail Graham, whose production of Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney played at The Print Room, Notting Hill and Lyric Belfast in 2013, directs Death of a Salesman. Design is by Georgia Lowe, lighting designer is Matt Haskins, composer and sound designer is Giles Thomas, movement director is Jennifer Jackson, fight director is Brett Yount and dialect coach is Martin McKellan.
The play runs in Northampton from Saturday 8 until Saturday 29 April before touring to Cambridge, Bath, Malvern, Exeter, Canterbury, Portsmouth, Edinburgh and Truro.