Word: theater
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saffold is just one voice in an often silent chorus of minorities who have felt the chill in that September afternoon. How are the players in Harvard's dramatic community reacting to the perception that theater is a white-only world...
...many Harvard minorities, the feeling of alienation begins as soon as the theater schedule is published. The vast majority of directors at Harvard are not minorities, nor are the majority of featured playwrights. The Harvard Theater Database indicates that since 1995, August Wilson, a pivotal African-American playwright, has been performed once at Harvard, while European writer Tom Stoppard has graced the stage 4 times and Shakespeare...
...Most directors attribute their current choices of plays to their own personal tastes. Dorothy Fortenberry '02 of Uncommon Women and Others notes that while she is concerned about the absence of minority playwrights in Harvard theater, she as a European-American woman would be uncomfortable attempting to direct a work by a minority. "Would I be able to do it justice?" she wonders...
...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...
...assumption of a white audience doesn't necessarily preclude minority participation in theater. For Marcus Stern, a Harvard lecturer and frequent director at the American Repertory Theater, he would be "hard-pressed to believe there is almost any script that can't be casted color-blind. As soon as you start making racial lines in your work, your work becomes half of what it could be. That's true of any field...