| Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:25 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:15 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| So, I understand that in real life Isaac Powell is bi-racial. But it was very odd to me to watch this production with someone who looks, for all intents and purposes, white. Did this strike anyone else as hurting part of the point of the setting? The conflict is laid out as being between the upper class lighter skinned blacks and the poor dark skinned native blacks. To me that is lost when you're look at dark skinned people and someone who looks quite white. And I was in the first row so maybe the lightness of his skin color was all the more apparent to me than it might have been to others? I dunno. I have to assume Michael Arden saw this distinction as an asset to the storytelling, but it took me by surprise and made it seem like a different racial issue than it's written about, and confused the issue (especially since he's the only person playing one of the island people who is anywhere near as light-skinned as he is - if he were the only upper-class character being portrayed it might have had the desired effect, but there are several others who are not played by such notably light-skinned actors). Am I way off base? | |
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