THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Playwrights of Color, White Directors, and Exposing Racist Policy
by Nicole Brewer
From the article:
Damn. This thought reverberates through my body, an ultrasonic sound wave carrying much more than disappointment and dismay. As a Black director, actor, and facilitator of anti-racist theatre, I am unable to shake myself free of the viscosity of thoughts I’m having around another company’s decision to uphold a racist policy: hiring a white director to stage a play written by a playwright of color. This has happened time and again: with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From the Wars, James Ijames’s Kill Move Paradise, David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, Karen ZacarÃas’ Native Gardens, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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