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Death Of A Salesman -> Arthur Miller

Jack Edwards hyped this one up and it did not dissapoint. pretty sure this is the first play ive read that wasnt for school and all tihngs considered it worked out well, im not convinced it would have been as good as it was if it wasnt written as a play. it was a pleasure to watch this dudes life all apart. 4/5 stars overall

Andrew Garfield and Phillip Seymour Hoffman were 28 and 44 years old respectively when they appeared in the 2012 production of Arthur Miller's play. Hard to believe that the young fresh faced Garfield was standing next to a man that at age 20 auditioned five times for his role as pampered George Willis Jr in Scent Of A Woman. Two talented actors, one who passed on way too young, and the other still polishing and perfecting his skills.

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I finally found it. A few weeks ago I was stumbling around online and found the much-rumored audio recording of Death of a Salesman on Broadway starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield. You can download it here as a (huge) zip file, with the entirety of Acts I and II from the May 23, 2012 show (one of the final weeks of its run). This recording captures just one night, only a fraction of the effort and pain and heart they put into this production over all those months, but what a fucking treasure.

It’s an emotionally exhausting two and a half hours. Garfield and the rest of the cast are phenomenal. This is the first time I’ve actually heard Phil performing on stage and he’s like thunder, a completely different animal in the theater than on screen — you can practically see the spit flying as he shouts like you’ve never heard him before and he somehow commands the drawn-out, lingering silences just as much as he dominates scenes with dialogue. He put his entire soul into this devastating, breathtaking role, his heart and his life.

“The woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going on all around.”