The following plays are on our midterm: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949)
August Wilson's Fences (1983...Broadway Premiere in 1987)
Langston Hughes' Soul Gone Home (1937)
Tony Kushner's Angels in America (The Millenium Approaches) (1993)
David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly (1988)
Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Let's start with a link to the Multiply entry with reviews of DoaS:
These videos may also be useful:
And if you need to jog your memory of the 1985 version starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich:
How does this historical background help you understand Death of a Salesman a little better?
What do you make of the 1983 production in Beijing?
Ooh...the picture below is of the original set of DoaS!
On to Fences!How I wish that there were a full-length film version of Fences! Or more clips!
This blogger from California has seen several different versions of Fences:
In the meantime, these are the clips that we watched. First is the comparison between the 1987 production and the one from 2010:
We didn't see this clip, but I thought that you'd like to see how Denzel Washington and Viola Davis handled the scene that followed:
Here Troy is "fighting Death":
And this is the montage of the 2010 production:
The slideshow of Jacksonville State University's production is here:
See this link for the video from Kenny Leon's production at Boston's Huntington Theater Company:
Are you interested in set design?
Finally, here is the video from the Portland Stage Company:
A picture from this production is below:
Below are two more Multiply entries on Fences:And I forgot to link the entry on Langston Hughes, the author of "Soul Gone Home":
Below is a picture of Harlem's 125th street in 1935:
Here is a picture of the house where Langston Hughes lived from 1947 on:
Want to look inside?
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