![]() Never mind that this stolen land, was built on the backs and the flowing blood of African, enslaved people, in a country that considered us profitable property. Those are five very powerful words (in pursuit of the American Dream) that means something very different for people of African descent. Today, “Death of A Salesman” is considered, by some critics, to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. ![]() And it’s inescapable not to look closely at what a capitalistic society’s impact on a life, his life, can be. There are many themes that still ring true today such as the aforementioned question on the quality of the ‘American dream’ and examining the building blocks of truth and infidelity. On Broadway in February 1949, it ran for 742 performances introducing the world to the traveling salesman, Willy Loman, who is so defeated and utterly disappointed with his life that he appears to be sliding into senility, happily. For his work, Miller won a Pulitzer Prize and in describing this play, he called it “the tragedy of a man who gave his life, or sold it” in pursuit of the American dream. Pierce also shared his deep respect for all of the African American newspapers calling our reporting “important” and “necessary.”īut, first a history lesson – “Death of a Salesman” is a play in two acts and a requiem and was written by Arthur Miller in 1948 and produced in 1949. Bringing this classic play to the stage with an all-Black cast has a very special meaning to the veteran actor and producer. Pierce used to live uptown, Harlem in a neighborhood packed with people that looked and sounded like us, during a period in New York’s history where bullets flew and people ducked.
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