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,
Adventure Story (play) the throne of Asia? Who shall I condemn to death?' The play opened at the St. James's Theatre in March 1949, with Paul Scofield in his first starring West End role, as Alexander. The BBC transmitted a live TV version of the play in 1950, starring Andrew Osborn as Alexander; and another in 1961, a recording of which has survived, directed by Rudolph Cartier, with Sean Connery in the role. Of his performance, "The Times" wrote, "certain inflexions and swift deliberations of gesture at times made one feel that the part had found the young Olivier it needs." Adventure Story