Review: Alas, the resultant show of Eleanor Burgess’ “Wife of a Salesman,” premiering at Writers Theatre in Glencoe, is a jumbled and confounding clunker.
Eleanor Burgess’ “Wife of a Salesman” has a fascinating premise: What if Linda Loman, the wife of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s great drama “Death of a Salesman,” showed up at the home of the unnamed woman with whom Willy had the affair that wrecks his family? What would she say? What might she do?
And this is despite the presence of two world-class actresses in Kate Fry and Amanda Drinkall. The piece feels incomplete, confused, misdirected and, frankly, should not have been fully produced in this state. Not at up to $90 a ticket.In academic circles, Linda Loman is typically referred to as a problematic character, being as it appears that Miller has written her with little agency over her own life; she’s merely an enabling mouthpiece for the men in her family, a standard seminar view goes.
[Most read] Prosecutors decline to charge Chicago police officers in shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and that of Anthony Alvarez, 22, days laterAlas, the character that emerges in this work is yet more of a stereotype than the one in the original play; such are the perils, of course, of riffing on the work of great writers.
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