Addressing a lack of on-stage diversity requires a thorough re-think of the casting process, as well as strategies to increase the diversity of audiences, playwrights, composers and directors, writes Julia Prest.
When news of Rapture Theatre’s 2017 production of Tennessee Williams’ classic play A Streetcar Named Desire, reached one writer at The Herald newspaper, he penned a provocative piece under the headline: It’s hard to see Streetcar’s Stanley Kowalski as anything but white.
The reviewer argued that Stanley... Keep reading on The Conversation
When news of Rapture Theatre’s 2017 production of Tennessee Williams’ classic play A Streetcar Named Desire, reached one writer at The Herald newspaper, he penned a provocative piece under the headline: It’s hard to see Streetcar’s Stanley Kowalski as anything but white.
The reviewer argued that Stanley... Keep reading on The Conversation