[ SECRET POST #3233 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3233 ⌋

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[ibbity]

It's theater. If it was film you might have a point but theater doesn't always rely on ethnicity in its casting the way film does. It's always been a big thing in theater to cast people who aren't the same [age, gender, race, etc.] as the characters they play because theater is less about being a 100% realistic-in-every-particular depiction of real life and more about creating an overall image of the story they are telling. It's like comparing a photorealist painting to an Impressionist work and complaining that the one uses different artistic techniques than the other.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't mind it so much if the playwright didn't go on and on about how it's based off the Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow. Mr Chernow is an incredible biographer and the inaccuracies just seem to undermine his work. But you do present a good argument so I will concede on the point of it being theater vs a movie or other presentation.

[(Anonymous)]

My issue with racebending is that it's 'one way' - you couldn't have a white Othello now without causing a huge stink (although I did see a production a few years ago where Othello was the only white person in the cast, it was okay but I think the focus on race took too much away from the rest of the story). If racebending truly came down to "it's theatre, we're race blind" then Othello could be white, Martin Luther King could be white and Abraham Lincoln could be a black woman - but you really wouldn't cast like that unless you were making a point.

[(Anonymous)]

silly story for you - I once came home to find my roommmate seriously stoned having an intense argument about how Abraham Lincoln was black and "like Jesus" he's been in the victim of historical whitewashing. I asked him what made him think Lincoln was black, his response was "because".

[(Anonymous)]

i think it's not the other way because there are plenty of roles open to white actors and only white actors, even in theater. a latino alexander hamilton and a black aaron burr isn't hurting anyone deep down, a white MLK would hurt people. there are old timers still around who remember him. othello i don't give a fuck about.

[(Anonymous)]

...racism is part of othello's story though