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...College Theater celebrated its grand re-opening with an excellent production of the hilariously absurd play, “Oh Dad, Poor Dad.” Like many other Harvard theatrical productions, however, the triumph of the production was attenuated by the lack of minorities in the cast. Sadly, many audience members and production staff were oblivious to the lack of minority representation...
...Minorities make up nearly half of the Harvard population. Yet, minority actors, directors, producers, and techies are few and far between. In Harvard productions, how often do you find minority actors cast onstage, besides in productions that are staged by cultural groups such as BlackCAST or Bodas de Sangre? Certain ethnicities, particularly Asian and Middle Eastern, are conspicuously missing from Harvard’s thespian community...
...sure, no one should go to a theatrical production expecting 21 percent of the cast to mirror Harvard College’s Asian population. But it is unfortunate that no one expects to see a variety of actors from different minority groups play roles in productions that were written in an era when Caucasians dominated the theater community...
...that Caramel is dopy. It may be a first film, but Labaki, employing a cast that is full of non-professional actresses, is a slick and knowing filmmaker. Her multiple plot lines are neatly braided and though her characters are conventionalized they are also charming and capable of surprising us. I suppose, in the end, you'd have to say that her film is no big deal - just another good-looking, gently humorous, pleasantly romanticized little comedy, which ends with everyone a little wiser than they began. But that reckons without the unique circumstances of its making and its implicit...
...Early voting could also be a problem for Obama. Up to half of the four million likely California Democratic voters are expected to vote before primary day, as more than a million already have done, and many of those have doubtless cast their votes before Obama gained new momentum after winning in South Carolina. No wonder that the Clinton campaign, trying to take advantage of her name recognition, has focused its efforts on early voting. And it worked: Back at the Chavez Center in Long Beach, many of the elderly Latinas, including Salazar, have already voted for Clinton by mailing...