He was delivering the keynote speech at the Theatre Communications Group annual conference at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre Centre. In 1996, the late, great double Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning American playwright August Wilson famously said “to mount an all-black production of Death of a Salesman or any other play conceived for white actors as an investigation of the human condition through the specifics of white culture is to deny us our own humanity, our own history, and the need to make our own cultural investigation from the cultural ground in which we stand as Black Americans”. Wendell Pierce stars in ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Young Vic.
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