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| Posted by: lordofspeech 07:12 pm EDT 06/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Here's a link - Delvino 06:20 pm EDT 06/28/20 | |
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| This writing scintillates, and, overall, scorns at the marketplace mentality that runs deep beneath our industry’s professed love of artistry, community, and public service. But I think we’ve always had a marketplace mentality. In the USA, at any rate. Does Lynn Nottage? Perhaps. Nothing wrong with that. And nothing wrong with being married to a light-skinned man or with not necessarily choosing to identify with her race in every aspect of herself. We used to hear people say they don’t want to be known as an Irish playwright, a female playwright, a gay playwight, etc. I don’t think Nottage needs to perform her blackness. In any way. Not in her personal or professional life. Nor does she need to be a saint. She’s a playwright, and she’s muscled her way into considerable respectability, celebrity, and prizes. Good for her. Was it classy that she didn’t reach out to the cast when they re-cast the show? I don’t know. What would she have said? Pretended like she didn’t want her play hitched to brighter lights? Better silence than hypocrisy. Look, we all know this could be called a cut-throat business. It’s just the reality of it all. Would that Raisin in the Sun have existed wothout Sean Combs? No. Stars are how the world plays now. I like that the writer is pointing to money as the source of so much: credential, celebrity, respect, and license. He’s cutting with a sharp knife. And he’s slicing wild, and there’s something exciting in the writing in that he’s not shying away from the taboos or the targets protected by political correctness. Full disclosure: i know Lynn Nottage’s husband to be very attractive and personable. In fine: Money makes the world go round. Of course. Why not say so? |
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