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...Admittedly, it is hard to blame a casting director for looking at a quintessentially American role like Willy Loman??s in “Death of a Salesman” and visualizing a white actor because that is how the role is traditionally portrayed. But Loman??s character encompasses a more fundamental struggle to achieve the American Dream that transcends race. Why, then, can’t Loman??s character be played equally well by others who represent one of the many other peoples whose struggle to achieve the American dream is just...
...Never forget: One Strindberg play is enough Swedish depression, paranoia, and angst for a generation of Harvard students, and “Pelican” already ran last semester. 3. “Death of a Salesman.” The story of Willie Loman??s downfall and the death of the American Dream would hit just a little too close to home for all the future i-bankers here. 2. “Waiting for Godot.” Putting up this famously inscrutable play on campus would give us all even more of an excuse...
...economics.“You can’t divorce ‘Death of a Salesman’ from its political indictment of capitalism,” Kushner said. “The system is operating by a logic that has nothing to do with human life. [Willy Loman??s] astonishment in the face of that, as the world leaves him, is incredibly moving. I don’t think it’s dated.”Kushner took this opportunity to launch into his own indictment of the Bush administration and the larger Republican apparatus...
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