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re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel?
Posted by: Chazwaza 04:27 pm EST 02/06/18
In reply to: re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? - BroadwayTonyJ 04:12 pm EST 02/06/18

I got the new context for it and the players doing the storytelling, but I don't understand why they are telling THIS story, one that, in the text still, has to do with black vs black racism and classism. And sadly I couldn't quite not see it all the time, it always seemed very colonial-fantasy that this poor black peasant is worshiping this skinny rich white kid for no reason... I think it only brings out some of the weakness and problematic-ness of the story being told and how it plays out.
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re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel?
Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:39 pm EST 02/06/18
In reply to: re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? - Chazwaza 04:27 pm EST 02/06/18

Yes, I've always thought it was even worse than its antecedent "The Little Mermaid" in what feels to me the unexamined "colorist" even when both actors are of Afro-Caribbean descent (or played as such). And I generally like Rosa Guy as a novelist!
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