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,
A Matter of Life and Death (play) Clapp's enthusiastic review in The Observer, critical reaction to the play was generally poor. This prompted an attack by National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner on the major London critics, whom he described as "dead white men". His charges of misogyny and prejudice against female directors and new styles of theatre were hotly rebutted by his targets. A production was staged at The Space, an arts and community centre on the Isle of Dogs in London, from 14 to 16 June 2012. A Matter of Life and Death (play) A Matter of Life and Death is a stage adaptation by Tom