Death of a Salesman

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If Willy Loman were named Willy Loudman, Charles S. Dutton would be on target. In director James Bundy's all African-American revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman now at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Tony Award-winning actor -- whom ticket-buyers might have thought was born to play the meaty role -- looks to be basing his interpretation on Willy's first-act line "Start big and you'll end big," without realizing there may be some place bigger to go. Indeed, he keeps the heightened shouting and waving arms up all but non-stop until the play's last third. And by completely disregarding what the text says about Willy's being "exhausted," Dutton and Bundy compromise the potentially d[...]