Death of a Salesman most important and successful night” in Hebbel-Theater in Berlin. It was said that “it was impossible to get the audience to leave the theatre” at the end of the performance. The Berlin production was more successful than New York, possibly due to better interpretation. Compared to Tennessee Williams and Beckett, Arthur Miller and his "Death of Salesman "were less influential. Rajinder Paul said that “"Death of a Salesman" has only an indirect influence on Indian theatre practitions.” However, it was translated and produced in Bengali as "'Pheriwalar Mrityu"' by the theater group Nandikar. Director Feroz Khan adapted the play in
Dustin Hoffman and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff." Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman "has been obsessed with the play" throughout his career: "For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest." For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it: Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, Lee J. Cobb, and remembers seeing his stage performance: "I'll never forget that period in my life. It was so