helvizz said: "The production from Rio was legal, since it was a non-profit college production and Brazilian laws allow such productions to exist, even if the material is copyrighted. Whether it was ethically and morally acceptable or not (specially due to the black face in my opinion) is another matter... "
"Hasa Diga Ebowai" from the UNIRIO production:
https://youtu.be/wpk2oK4ndjM
Gotta say, it looks like it was a blast (albeit extremely low budget). As for the so-called "black face": It just looks like a darker brown make-up was used to make some of the "Ugandans" look darker than, say, the brown-skinned Elder Cunningham. Hardly reason to get on a moral high horse.
I was in a college production of Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" and the actors playing the Egyptians used dark make-up to distinguish them from the Romans. (Except for yours truly. I instead opted to tan myself into oblivion -- and ended up looking darker than those in full make-up.) We just didn't have a population of North African/Middle Eastern students to cast from.
Updated On: 2/19/16 at 10:08 PM
