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...there are some, like Fred Hood '02, who disagree. "The Importance of Being Earnest is an upper-class British play and that's where [Oscar] Wilde takes the humor. I saw a lot of minorities try out, and I came into it pretty open, but the world I'm trying to create is British. [As such] everyone needs to be white. I casted as color-blindly as I would allow myself within the context of 18th-century England...
...Theater is an unfair business," Hood explains simply. "Minorities inevitably will not have equal opportunities in casting because most plays are written for a white realist audience...
...educating the theater community about the dramatic range of minorities. Some directors seem woefully ignorant of what they actually have to work with. "If acting's the problem, shows need singers and dancers, too," says Montel in an unintentional nod to the common relegation of minorities performers to minstrelsy. Hood mistakenly asserts that "African-American drama did not come about until Langston Hughes in the 1920s." "African-American drama started a long time before that,"says Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. Indeed, the first published play by a black writer dates...
...itself, designed to have you up and on the Internet within 10 minutes. Only two components need to be plugged in: the keyboard and the mouse, which slide into ports on the side of the machine rather than the back, which makes them much easier to access. Under the hood, you get terrific value, including 128 megs of RAM, a 13-gig hard drive, a DVD drive (including a complimentary copy of A Bug's Life) and a superfast graphics card...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: "The only funny Victorian play ever written." That's how Fred Hood describes this work. A native of Great Britain, the director says his upbringing should improve his interpretation of the cultural manner so key to Wilde's masterpiece. Importance will be "a very classic production of a classic play," says Hood...