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| This'll Try Blu's Superpower levels of Tolerance and Understanding | |
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| Cat's Pyjamas | Dec 21 2015, 06:17 PM Post #1 |
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A black actress has been cast to portray Hermione (I don't know her last name) in a London play about teh HP characters in middle age. Isn't it strange black Hamlets and black Macbeths and female Hamlets and Lears are applauded to the rafters, but present a white actor as Othello and they'll be howls of disapproval that'll be heard right around the world. A white Othello will be greeted with cries of 'racism' and 'when will whitey stop oppressing blacks and appropriating other cultures?!' |
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| Cat's Pyjamas | Dec 21 2015, 06:25 PM Post #2 |
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The Black and White Minstrels are thought of as an appalling example of racism,almost on a par with National Socialist depictions of Jews. While black Hamlets are thought just dandy.![]() [img]http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2014/03/51506092.jpg?itok=qWW0gkma[img] They've even cast a black woman as Hamlet! ![]() Poor Blu she has near Captain Sweden levels of tolerance. Lol Edited by Cat's Pyjamas, Dec 21 2015, 06:27 PM.
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| Cat's Pyjamas | Dec 21 2015, 06:28 PM Post #3 |
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"Who dat der sayin' 'who dat der'?"
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| Piquant | Dec 21 2015, 08:22 PM Post #4 |
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Black female Hamlet, lol. But back in Shakespeare times men would be given female roles so it's not that outrageous. It's the nature of theatre to lose yourself in the plot and the acting abilities of the cast. Dramatic flare is the essence of theatre, innit? You suspend your societal expectations and let your imagination rule for those couple of hours. Very different to movies. |
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| BlueWolf | Dec 22 2015, 12:01 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah I did read about Black Hermione. I can't say it actually bothered me one bit. It's obviously different from the films (Hermione wasn't specified as white in the books) the but it's a play?!- a completely different medium so it was always going to be a different interpretation. Just like the films were different from the books. I don't understand the fuss. Ron doesn't look like he's ginger in the pictures I've seen. Big whoop.
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