Play dealing with rep coming to an end? (5,2,1,8)
I believe the answer is:
death of a salesman
'play dealing with rep coming to an end?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'play dealing with rep coming to an end?' is the wordplay.
'play dealing with' becomes 'ofa' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rep' becomes 'salesman' (I've seen this in another clue).
'coming to' says to put letters next to each other.
'an end?' becomes 'death' (the end of a life).
'ofa'+'salesman'='ofasalesman'
'ofasalesman' put after 'death' is 'DEATH OF A SALESMAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for death of a salesman that I've seen is " Arthur Miller play".)