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 Death of Tintagiles the play which is considered impractical for performance. The English conductor Lawrance Collingwood wrote an opera based on the play, which was premièred in London in April 1950. The Death of Tintagiles The Death of Tintagiles () is an 1894 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. It was Maeterlinck's last play for marionettes. Maeterlinck dedicated the play to Aurélien Lugné-Poe, a theatre director who had supported several of his earlier works. The play was successfully staged by The Theater Studio of the Moscow Art Theater in 1905. This production was directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and designed by Nikolai Sapunov and