CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, February 29, 2012

It's worth a visit to 'Hospitality Suite'

Post Gazette: The "chief business of the American people is business," as that great sage Calvin Coolidge notoriously said. Whether that's true, business is one of the favorite subjects of American drama, especially the spiritual cost to the shock troops of business, its salesmen. The masterpiece is Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" (1949), in which Willy Loman dies in pursuit of the salesman's dream. From there it's straight through to David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984), where the sales wars are more cutthroat, and we laugh in shock.

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