Arts & Culture
It's (Arthur) Miller Time
The Intiman Theater begins their season by giving Arthur Miller's classic family drama, All My Sons
, a Seattle-based makeover: Instead of being set in the mid-west, it's set in the Central District, and instead of being about a white family, this version is about a black family.
Director Valerie Curtis-Newton says the change wasn't made to alter the play's racial message (there isn't one), but to give black actors the opportunity to do classic dramatic roles that black actors are generally considered, well, too black to play.
In this case, it's Tony Award-winning actor Chuck Cooper who gets to inhabit Joe Keller, a businessman suspected of selling faulty airplane parts to the government during WWII. The accusations have a tragic effect on Keller's family, causing his fighter pilot sons to revolt.
8:00pm, March 18, Intiman Theater, 201 Mercer Street, $10-$45
Director Valerie Curtis-Newton says the change wasn't made to alter the play's racial message (there isn't one), but to give black actors the opportunity to do classic dramatic roles that black actors are generally considered, well, too black to play.
In this case, it's Tony Award-winning actor Chuck Cooper who gets to inhabit Joe Keller, a businessman suspected of selling faulty airplane parts to the government during WWII. The accusations have a tragic effect on Keller's family, causing his fighter pilot sons to revolt.
8:00pm, March 18, Intiman Theater, 201 Mercer Street, $10-$45
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