Death of a Salesman - Kate Reid

[@scotgat]

This play, of course, is multi-layered and can be interpreted on many levels. But on a rudimentary level, the dialogue of the mother as performed by Kate Reid can be a speech of all American mothers (for the play is uniquely American) to all American sons. This is one of the many powerful elements of "Death Of A Salesman". When I saw this television broadcast in the 1980s (as a 25 year old), I was reduced to uncontrollable devastation of weeping and crying after the broadcast. No other American play had such an impact, except maybe, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof".

[@peterrollinson-lorimer]

Who better to play the quintessential American but a Canadian.

[@onelonelypickle]

You say you were reduced to weeping and crying and I think why that is is because this is ultimately a play about fathers and sons. Many "intellectuals" will tell you it's about capitalism and the rat race of American life - NO. What keeps us coming back is that these interactions, and especially the climax of the play between Willy and Biff, which highlight the inescapable quarrel between father and son in most (but not all) American household. The man the father wanted the son to be vs. the man who the son is.

[@davefuller3311]

What marvelous acting! Thank you very much for posting this.

[@jalensera]

6:18 I think this is where she realized that Willy was having an affair.

[@georgetimson8620]

Yes, a perfect moment --"there was this woman"

[@charlotteconnelly6623]

Monologue starts at 2:50

[@양승주-z1z]

2:51~3:40 attention must be paid.