Jeremy Tiang — SALESMAN 之死
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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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