| re: The Legend of Georgia McBride |
| Posted by: gothamplaygoer 02:33 pm EDT 10/26/17 |
| In reply to: re: The Legend of Georgia McBride - Michael_Portantiere 10:15 am EDT 10/26/17 |
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| I thought it was a delightful play and am happy to learn that it has "legs." The New York production raised an issue that continues to confuse me. In a case that a role is cast with an actor of a race other than the one we are expecting, when are we supposed to ignore the actor's race and when are we supposed to find it significant? If a north Florida cracker like Casey (a/k/a Georgia McBride) was brave enough to marry an African-American woman, that casts his willingness to assume a drag persona in a new light. I was therefore disappointed when I learned that in an earlier production his wife had been played by a white actor. My point is that it is often hard to know whether a role in a new play has been filled by an actor of color because of or irrespective of that consideration so that the audience knows whether to notice or ignore it. |
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