Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
In the first half of 2014, I directed Death of a Salesman at Fishkill Correctional Facility, under the auspices of Rehabilitation Through the Arts.
With my incarcerated assistant director, Johnny Hincapie, I wrote the following for the playbill:
Willy Loman says, of his sons, “I got a couple of fearless characters,” to which his neighbor, Charley, responds, “the jails are full of fearless characters.”
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman resonates with the goals of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA): just as Willy’s son, Biff, struggles with shame, deceit, disappointment, self-doubt and even self-loathing as he tries to find his own path and create his own definition of success, so the men of RTA strive to transform themselves. Through perseverance, identification, communication, compassion, team work and supporting one another in moments of doubt and difficulty, RTA participants begin to find their voices and to imagine new possibilities for themselves in ways that only Biff, among the Lomans, is able to do.
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