The performance experience is a tourist souvenir snapshot of culture and identity. The experience is both white and whitewashed. Such representations does a disservice to the culture and to the production. #ShakeRace 9/
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A school teacher stormed the stage in protest declaring "there are no homosexual acts in Shakespeare. [...] this isn't Shakespeare, I want my money back." 20/
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The people want their Hamlet. We are also free to interpret Shakespeare in our own way. The question is: who owns Shakespeare.... 21/pic.twitter.com/eZw5dDpnEC
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"Ireland should explode the polite relationship to Shakespeare, that Shakespeare is not an English writer, but a confrontational writer"--Fiona Shaw on Irish Shakespeare 22/
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Shaw on Shakespeare, affected by the postcolonial relationship between England and Ireland. 23/pic.twitter.com/HTBwWJUxVj
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We're at the q&a. Talking about what to do with a dramaturge, usually folks don't know what to do, and with Shakespeare, people usually think they know what this is. 24/
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@noraj_williams precarity exists in the theater, for actors of color. Also within the asymmetrical power dynamics backstage. 25/Näytä tämä ketju -
What about non-Anglophone productions? "Many productions exist outside of the periphery of whiteness" @drlettycgarcia, talking about Mendoza and Huapango. There are effective productions that are being made outside of the Anglo-American sphere.
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@drlettycgarcia "Take Risks." and
@noraj_williams and @drlettycgarcia "We love Shakespeare, but...." This is a universal feeling for scholars of color in Shakespeare studies. 27/Näytä tämä ketju -
@aewaiwhy asks how militarism and empire enter through the back door of cultural tourism in these appropriations of other cultures. AD here: also think about the collusion of Shakespeare with empire and militarism. 28/Näytä tämä ketju -
Question about making edits to the Shakespearean texts to remove the racist language or the rhetorical violence of the play... What do we do when we edit? Are we fixing a problem or are we hiding a problem? Can we fix the problem with that language?
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Color conscious casting, requires thinking through the discomfort of this language. @drlettycgarcia "it's important to face up to the ugliness of this language."
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The privilege of being able to say Othello is not about race. We must be attuned to these questions, and they asymmetrical relations of power that inhere in them.
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