What happens to the stories you think you know when they’re performed by a black cast? Or when women take on the main roles? Welcome to woke Miller, if you will. He’s the great chronicler of the failures of the American Dream, but he’s also a box-office dream Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View From the Bridge are all easy titles to sell, especially with a bit of big-name casting.īut look a little closer and you’ll see that some of these productions are doing things rather differently – shaking up these old classics through bold approaches to casting. This could smack of safe programming: after all, we know Miller – or we think we do. There are a number of Arthur Miller plays on right now, from the David Suchet-starring The Price in the West End to a veritable takeover of Waterloo as the neighbouring Old Vic and Young Vic stage three of his plays in quick succession.
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