In Roger Furman’s setting for the play, designed after the original by Jo Mielziner, a number of locations have been gathered into a single visual frame Miller writes that he has attempted to employ modern perspectives in science like Einstein, he has ‘collapsed time and space.’ Death of A Salesman is an image of a man’s ‘way of thinking’ about his life, as he approaches that place-out-of-time called ‘eternity.’” He writes, “One of the most difficult aspects of the play-for the spectator accustomed to Realistic forms of drama-is Miller’s use of Expressionistic stage technique. O’Neal also seeks to guide his audience in watching a kind of theatre that was not yet in the mainstream. He observes that in the first decade of the play’s existence, it drew “considerable criticism from the theatre and the public alike.” O’Neal’s own audience, like many audiences distant from New York at the time, may not have been especially familiar with Death of a Salesman before it entered the high school curriculum and the community theatre repertoire. O’Neal’s program notes for the production do not address the effect the casting has on the story, but they do situate the play in the history of theatre.
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