Sierra Stages presents Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Exploring the gap between fathers and sons, the tragedy of misplaced ambitions, and the rightful definition of the American dream itself, Death of a Salesman speaks of human dilemmas and human truths. A not-to-be-missed event.
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(530) 346-3210 or go to sierrastages.org
User:
Theatre
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Michelle Williams’ performance as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh’s performance as Sir Laurence Olivier are highly favored to receive Academy Award nominations. In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl,’ the film that famously united Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years later, Clark’s diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn – this is the story of that week. It happened when Arthur Miller left England, and Colin introduced Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic getaway week during which she left her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work behind. “Highest Rating! I understood something, through Michelle Williams' performance, that I'd never fully grasped: Marilyn's power wasn't just sexual power. It was the power to light up the sky.” –Mick LaSalle, S.F. Chronicle.
