Howard Sherman examines a number of reviews of the National Theatre’s ‘As You Like It’, finding the repeated mentions of race at best superfluous and at worst insidious.
Four words. Why do four words bother me so much?
After all, they appear in one review of an As You Like It production at the National Theatre in London that I’m highly unlikely to ever see. So why are these four words – which appear in a parenthetical clause, by the way – still on my mind a week after the review, by Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph, was published? Well, I guess we should start with the four words in question.
“Man mountain black actor.” Keep reading on hesherman.com
Four words. Why do four words bother me so much?
After all, they appear in one review of an As You Like It production at the National Theatre in London that I’m highly unlikely to ever see. So why are these four words – which appear in a parenthetical clause, by the way – still on my mind a week after the review, by Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph, was published? Well, I guess we should start with the four words in question.
“Man mountain black actor.” Keep reading on hesherman.com