In a new Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” the actor Wendell Pierce—best known for his role as detective Bunk in “The Wire”—makes the melody of a sentence carry meaning beyond its words.
Watching Wendell Pierce act is more like listening to music than it is like taking in a play. It’s his job to carry a story forward, but he’s best enjoyed on the basis of individual line readings and gestures. At his finest, his scratchy, searching baritone can make the melody of a sentence carry meaning beyond its words. His stocky, solid body, fraught with intention, moves decisively: he twitches a shoulder or points a finger and you know what he means to get across.
Success is my middle name. I became famous for my financial twerking that showed folks how to make money, without even the money working. We could go on and on about me, but we have a lot of stuff to do and tonight’s proceedings are all about you. Believe me, O, Glorious People! You are great and we are sooo fantastic.
That’s a brutal construal of society—lofty but, when you think about it, sad. As a guide for life, it works if you are indeed a hero, but if you’re made of softer stuff, as Willy is, well, then, too bad. Willy can’t swing with the band, and he plays wrong note after wrong note; it drives him off the deep end, and his family with him.
Clarke’s voice is as rich and varied when she speaks as it is when she sings; she lilts in questioning, up-turning cadences even when she’s not asking a question. That vocal fullness adds to the dignified mien of her physical presence and makes her seem as though she’s saying only half of what she really feels. Her Linda is a clotted, halting creature who sometimes explodes into torrents of reproval at her insufficiently respectful sons.
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