Cultural Appropriation/Whitewashing
Jun 15 2018, 11:07:53 PM
[While the “The Wiz” has traditionally been performed with an all-black cast, Speer said she hopes to make her rendition a multi-cultural experience, bringing in actors from a wide array of backgrounds.]
-Press Statement from the show.
A professional Company is doing a production of The Wiz. Lees-McRae Summer Theatre in NC. They decided that the "traditionally all-black" (because somehow using the word traditionally means optional) show needed to have white p
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