Chapter 5: Avery Brooks and Justin Emeka discuss "Death of a Salesman" at Oberlin

Avery discusses his approach to the role of Willy Loman and the other major roles he has played, from Malcolm X to Paul Robeson to Hawk to a Star Trek captain. Theater, Brooks says, is where all artistic genres meet, the place of ideas.

Avery Brooks stars in "Death of a Salesman" directed by Justin Emeka, on stage September 18-21, 2008 at Oberlin College's Hall Auditorium in Oberlin, Ohio. Visit oberlin.edu/salesman for tickets and more information on this production.

Oberlin professor Caroline Jackson Smith offers a look behind the scenes of the production in this series of interviews, filmed at Oberlin on September 1, 2008 and produced by Daniel Schloss.

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