A new production of 'Death of a Salesman' recently opened on Broadway with a change: The main character and his family are played by Black actors. It's a notable difference in the play’s interpretation.
When playwright Arther Miller released “” in 1949, the play received Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and brought grown men to their knees.
and he says the role isn’t validation for Black actors — they’re all over Broadway. But the role is different for him, and he’s still learning. “So this was a great challenge and a great gift because it gave me time to sit and reflect and really delve deep into those same considerations that Willy Loman is thinking about. But also learn from the play because it’s a cautionary tale. I didn’t want to make the same mistakes Willy makes.”“To do this as a color-blind ‘Death of a Salesman’ would be an insult. We’re not color-blind in our production, we’re color-specific.
“[One scene] that comes to mind the most [is] when the woman is standing there and says ‘I hope no one sees me in the hall.’ She is a white woman saying to two Black men that she is underdressed, a year after the Scottsboro boys' trial. ‘I hope no one sees me like this in the hall.’ And that is an unveiled threat.
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