Playwright, novelist, and translator Jeremy Tiang joins the podcast to talk about his new play Salesman 之死, which tells the story of Arthur Miller's 1983 directorial debut: a Chinese-language production of Death of A Salesman in Beijing. The conversation explores the the play's creative twists on translation and multilingualism, the deep research that revitalized the stories of the real-life characters onstage, and the possibilities and limitations of cross-cultural theater-making.
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The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.
Salesman 之死, a production of Yangtze Repertory Theatre and Gung Ho Projects, is running off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater until October 28th. Find out more at www.yzrep.org.
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