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benicebefunny · 1 year ago

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TIL a startling number of British theatre critics don't think Assassins is about White America.

Assassins: a play by white Americans about white Americans killing white Americans for white Americans in order to get what they feel white Americans are entitled to.

That Assassins. That one.

#theatre #i'm not saying that the show demands an all white cast #i think it could be cast and staged in a way that calls even greater attention to the whiteness of the american dream #and the resentment and gun culture and celebrity worship that motivated the assassins #actors of color playing white characters could make whiteness impossible to ignore #but that's not what chichester did #the assassins were audience plants who were assigned the role of a particular assassin and that was that #and i haven't seen a single review yet that mentions race #if you have please share #the radio silence about casting actors of color as fromme and zangara and czolgosz is destabilizing #i'm questioning if i exist in a separate reality #i know not everything is about white americans but c'mon #this feels like one thing

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