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| re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:43 pm EDT 05/17/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - TheHarveyBoy 01:23 pm EDT 05/17/23 | |
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| First of all, the reference to "done to death" arises from the letter he received. Secondly, one casting about the word "rude" might want to consider what is going on with the use of the author's first name as if either you know him (which I doubt) or you consider yourself superior to him in some way (no comment). Finally, the reflexive turning the act under discussion on its head present additional issues that I don't think we need to address right now. Let's take a step back. If we have lots of shows in which the absence of verisimilitude does not raise issues (and this is 99%+ of all shows), perhaps it would be good to examine, particularly in the U.S., with its race-obsessed legacy that just won't go away, if the problem is casting a black man as Tevye or some defect that prevents us from toning down our race lens. I saw a sold production of My Fair Lady not too long ago, at a high school in Westchester. Higgins was played by a 16 year old boy. No one seemed to notice. |
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| re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:43 pm EDT 05/18/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - ryhog 01:43 pm EDT 05/17/23 | |
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| No one noticed he was a 16 year old boy?? You did obviously. I would think everyone did. | |
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| re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:13 pm EDT 05/18/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - KingSpeed 06:43 pm EDT 05/18/23 | |
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| Notice, yes, but then move on. The theatre requires, first and foremost, suspension of belief. You notice you are watching a play set in Russia in the middle of Manhattan and people are speaking English. You notice Leo Frank is singing; he didn't. And then you move on. My point is that, especially in the US, a lot of people who can move on from most everything else have a problem moving on from race. That's what this is about. | |
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