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2 days agoAn Extra-Dark, Newly Illuminated Death of a Salesman
Revival productions of classic plays can evoke mixed feelings about their relevance and purpose in contemporary society.
At just shy of 200 years old, Henrik Ibsen feels like a writer for the moment - full of passionate intensity, yet just as fiery in his skepticism and self-critique as in his moral conviction; grand and unsparing and perverse; equipped with an internal Geiger counter for sanctimony and bullshit. And while A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler tend to come around often enough in the contemporary theater,