Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy of the American Dream gone sour, is revitalized and given room to encompass the Black experience in director Miranda Cromwell’s intr…
doesn’t so much reinvent Miller’s masterpiece as open its doors to perspectives that enrich the material.
The revival opens with the entire cast, secondary players and all, appearing ghostlike to sing a bluesy gospel song as mournful as it is hopeful, a foreshadowing perhaps of a funeral dirge to come, the various sticks of the Loman household furniture hovering high above the stage waiting to descend and take us back to 1949.
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