I do have a sincere (and most likely minority) belief that Shakespeare plays need to be retired as more often than not, it just does not need to be done. It is however an often safe and boring choice for many PWI theatres and a guarantee to hire mostly white actors dishing out their favorite monologues to varying amounts of success.
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I applaud A Noise Within‘s passionate commitment to put up all ten of August Wilson‘s The Pittsburgh Cycle plays and as someone deeply invested in global majority representation in Los Angeles theatre, I want to be there in watching all of them even though I am starting to notice the aging cracks in his plays which I’ll get more into later.
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Staged adaptations of novels usually don’t end up working well as they are clunky at best and downright tedious at worst. Thankfully, the staged version of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is one of the few works that so vividly brings the novel’s words to life, thanks to the fine adaptation of Lydia R. Diamond.
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