THE DEATH OF A WINE SALESMAN
Arthur Miller’s Lastest Classic Is Based On True Accounts About: Grape Shortages, Excess Sales, Frozen Roads Crossing the Andes, Forest Fires, Droughts, Port-Strikes, Fuel Surcharges, Death Threats from Gangsters, Marketing Gimmicks, Fake Bottles Sold at Auction and The Working Man’s Prayer for Adequate Distribution.
“I’m gonna show you and everybody else that Willie Loman did not die in vain. Now let’s get the wine out of that oven you call ‘Storage’ and see if it’s still drinkable.” - Happy Loman
“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territoy. That and a salesman has got to have a sense of humor… else the Wine Industry will kill ‘em before one starts.” - Guru Arjan Dev
“Baudelaire could make a wine bottle talk, fight, curse and make love in an infested Parisian alley all at the same time, but these were all images of Baudelaire indulging himself in himself, self-destructive patterns that could be avoided. Yet Miller’s ‘The Death of A Wine Salemsan’ is a true account of the Wine Industry, and on a given night, it could happen to any one of us.” - Raymond P. Scheindlin, author of Wine, Women and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life