NYTimes.com: BEFORE most performances of the new Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” as other cast members stretch in their dressing rooms, Philip Seymour Hoffman walks onto the stage of the Barrymore Theater and folds his barrel frame into a chair at the Loman family kitchen table. And there he sits for a half-hour or so on the purposely claustrophobic little set, preparing to become Willy Loman, that worn traveling salesman, proud father and husband, who is also the greatest tragic hero that American playwriting has produced. Sometimes Mr. Hoffman sips coffee and pages through the script, mentally tracing Willy’s journey into madness. Sometimes he talks with Linda Emond, the actress playing Willy’s wife, Linda, who also likes to visit the Loman home before curtain. And sometimes, not unlike Willy, he wanders back and forth across his own imagination.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Philip Seymour Hoffman Stars in ‘Death of a Salesman’
NYTimes.com: BEFORE most performances of the new Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” as other cast members stretch in their dressing rooms, Philip Seymour Hoffman walks onto the stage of the Barrymore Theater and folds his barrel frame into a chair at the Loman family kitchen table. And there he sits for a half-hour or so on the purposely claustrophobic little set, preparing to become Willy Loman, that worn traveling salesman, proud father and husband, who is also the greatest tragic hero that American playwriting has produced. Sometimes Mr. Hoffman sips coffee and pages through the script, mentally tracing Willy’s journey into madness. Sometimes he talks with Linda Emond, the actress playing Willy’s wife, Linda, who also likes to visit the Loman home before curtain. And sometimes, not unlike Willy, he wanders back and forth across his own imagination.
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