Salesman in China

Name: Salesman in China
Start: 2025-01-16T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-16T22:15:00-05:00
Location: National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts (1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada)

Schedule

Thu Jan 16 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:15 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts (1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada) | Ottawa, ON

FORTY YEARS AGO, A GROUNDBREAKING EAST-MEETS-WEST COLLABORATION REVOLUTIONALIZED THE THEATRE WORLD.
In 1983, playwright Arthur Miller ventured to China to stage a production of Death of a Salesman with theatre icon Ying Ruocheng
playing Willy Loman. Despite language barriers, they undertook the
monumental challenge of presenting a play deeply rooted in the
American Dream to a Communist Chinese audience. Inspired by
Ying and Miller’s memoirs, playwrights Leanna Brodie and Jovanni
Sy unveil the unlikely East-West collaboration that forged a daring
international alliance on the stage.
Written by Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy
Suggested by the Memoirs of Arthur Miller and Ying Ruocheng
Chinese Translations by Frang Zhang
Directed by Jovanni Sy
An NAC English Theatre presentation of the Stratford Festival production
Developed with support from the NAC’s National Creation Fund