The Salesman (2016 film) make a film until he decided his protagonists should be stage actors. Part of this decision owed to Farhadi's own background in the theatre, and his desire to re-immerse himself in that atmosphere. He also felt actors had to think of themselves as other people and create empathy, and his male protagonist would be forced to feel empathy for another man. Looking for a play within the film, Farhadi researched the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Henrik Ibsen before finding Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", which he described as "a gift for me". In Miller's play and his script,
The Dance of Death (Strindberg play) Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is highly reminiscent of "The Dance of Death", as is Harry Kondoleon's sparring match between angry and spiritually despairing couples, "The Houseguests". John Guare credited a production of Strindberg's play at the Royal National Theatre as an influence on his play "The House of Blue Leaves". The Dance of Death (Strindberg play) The Dance of Death () refers to two plays, "The Dance of Death I", and "The Dance of Death II", both written by August Strindberg in 1900. Part one was written in September, and then, after receiving a response to the