| So Many Thoughts! Re: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: broadwayjoey 06:17 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' - mattyp4 04:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| So many thoughts on this... • If the students are advocating for 'color-conscious casting' as mentioned in the linked article, then do they realize that this would require casting an actress of Romani descent? I don't believe that any of those students protesting were Romani. • So then why should any them be any more 'fit' for the part in a 'color-conscious casting' world than a Caucasian actress? Unless they're saying that race/ethnicity boils down to just the shade of a person's skin. Which (besides not being remotely true) I believe is a viewpoint that many activists representing various people of color have specifically spoken out against. • Furthermore, is the 'enlightened' (I use that word in place of the original poster's "woke") position to be pro 'color-blind casting' or pro 'color-conscious casting'? In "Great Comet" among other productions, we've seen countless 'enlightened' protests saying that casting should be 'color-blind' and that a black actor should absolutely be able to play a Caucasian Russian character. Now we have 'enlightened' protesters saying that a white actress should absolutely not be able to play a Romani French character. So which is it? • Or is it just that actors of color should just be given preference for all roles until they are represented in the theater in proportion to their percentage of the greater American populace? (An Affirmative Action type position.) All in all, this student protest comes across to me as trying way too hard to be "woke" and progressive, without much thought being put into their position. Furthermore, with it being led by an actress who wanted to play the lead and wound up in the ensemble, one has to wonder how much of this is motivated by a sense of social justice rather than a sense of sour grapes. |
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