Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Linda Thurston '80, president of Black CAST, says. "If I were doing Garry's play, and wanted to do it realistically, I would probably not consider a black actor. If Tim's interpretation was that the play needed white actors only, he at least owed non-white actors the courtesy...
"This is the one place at Harvard where you can learn how to act, so it's as if I've been denied admission to a class because I'm black. It seems that blacks here can only perform in experimental productions or in Black CAST--and I'm tired...
"Similarly, if I wanted to cast Purlie Victorious or Colored Girls and if it were important to my concept, I wouldn't put white actors in it. You can't take away from creative desion-making, and you can't force white directors to cast something colorblind."
An Asian student, Tetsuya Yamamoto '80, also tried out for "The Royal Family," did not read one of the lead roles and did not get called back. "Ideally," he says, "it would be best if directors and the audience could disregard people's backgrounds, but I don't think they...
A portion of Alberta's 140 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could arrive in New England within two years if the proposed Quebec-Maritime-Maine pipeline is approved by the Canadian National Energy Board, Lee Richardson, one of Lougheed's aides, said yesterday.