| re: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" | |
| Posted by: den 07:54 pm EDT 05/17/23 | |
| In reply to: NYT's Ethicist column: "Our Theater is Fighting About Diversity. Who’s Right?" - MockingbirdGirl 01:19 pm EDT 05/17/23 | |
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| I would love to see a production of Fiddler with someone like Norm Lewis playing Tevye. I think he’d be great. There is something universal about Tevye, he needn’t necessarily be played by someone who is Jewish. Though I was initially jarred by the casting, I’m excited that David Harewood, a Black actor, is cast as William F Buckley in The Best of Enemies (coming to a cinema near you, maybe, next weekend). Because Buckley, like Tevye, represents a type. The actor’s appearance is irrelevant. But in a play like A Raisin in the Sun, the actors playing Walter Lee Younger and his family kind of have to be Black … or at least played by members of an underrepresented, discriminated-against group. (Could Raisin work with an Hispanic cast or an Asian cast? I wonder.) I don’t know that a production of Raisin cast with white actors would make much sense. Most plays, I think, including Fiddler, can accommodate “diverse” non-traditional casting, and even benefit from it, but not all. | |
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