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About Death of a Salesman
A Note from The artistic director
Welcome to Death of a Salesman, the final production of Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2008–09 season.
This production marks a homecoming for two extraordinary actors: Charles S. Dutton and Kimberly Scott, both graduates of Yale School of Drama who last appeared at Yale Rep nearly 25 years ago in the world premiere of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. They lead an extraordinary company, many of whom you have seen at Yale Rep before. As a director, it has been a great joy to spend the last weeks and months with these remarkable artists to discover the universal truths of Arthur Miller’s timeless—and timely—masterpiece. I am thrilled that you are here to share it with us!
In an increasingly digitized and commoditized world, the live experience of the theatre—its immediacy, arguments, contradictions, exhilarations, longings, and sensations—is more precious than ever. You have let us know this through your increased attendance at our theatre and through your impassioned dialogues with our artists, each other, and me. The astonishing range of letters and e-mails I have received in response to plays at Yale Rep this year has reminded me again and again that our audiences are deeply committed to the value and power of theatre in their own lives and in the community.
As this season draws to a close, I am delighted to share with you our plans for 2009–2010: extraordinary new works and classic plays brought to life by some of the most accomplished and daring artists in the American theatre—some whose work you may know well already, and others coming to work at our theatre for the first time.
Yale Rep resident director Evan Yionoulis (Richard II) will kick off the season with a brand new production of Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder. Danai Gurira, the OBIE Award-winning co-author of In the Continuum, returns with her new play Eclipsed. Acclaimed playwright Rinne Groff and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, make their Yale Rep debuts with the world premiere of Compulsion. Christopher Bayes, whose choreography is featured in the hit Broadway production of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, directs Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece The Servant of Two Masters; and Robert Woodruff, fresh off this season’s Notes from Underground, returns to direct Battle of Black and Dogs, a haunting thriller by French writer Bernard-Marie Koltès. And there’s still one more play that we’ll announce shortly.
I hope you’ll take a moment here at the theatre, or online when you get home, to renew your commitment and subscribe to next year’s season. (Details can be found opposite this page.)
Thank you for your tremendous support, enthusiasm, and many stirring and thoughtful responses this season. I look forward to seeing and hearing from you again soon, and all of next year!
Sincerely,
James Bundy
Artistic Director
