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...renews his call for greater diversity in the casting of Harvard student productions and for theater that is more socially conscious. As a concerned and active student in theater—not as a representative of a group or organization—I share and admire Wong??s aspiration to develop and improve Harvard’s theater. However, I feel he ignores the truly inclusive nature of theater on our campus, and his conception of an ideal, responsible drama falls short of the stage’s full potential. Such missteps threaten to sacrifice meaningful artistic dialogue...
...these reasons and more, the theater community is at its core open to all. The appearance of it being—in Wong??s words—“exclusive and relatively confined” is perhaps a result of specific students putting in extraordinary time and effort to appear in not one, but multiple shows each semester. Moreover, these supposedly too familiar faces of Harvard’s theater begin as newcomers and continue to endure rejections and disappointments every year. Such students should be commended for passionately pursuing their craft, not used as targets...
...Furthermore, Wong??s suggestion that Harvard’s theater is confined to “precedent” and lacks “risk-taking” is absurd. The upcoming season alone displays an incredibly creative range of productions—with many diverse casting opportunities—from an original multimedia, movement-based production about love and atomic physics to a new interpretation of an ancient Greek feminist comedy. And, while I disagree with Wong??s idealization of gender-blind and race-blind casting as a kind of theatrical cure...
...Wong??s op-ed might have had the best intentions, and his desire to improve theater at Harvard is admirable. While I share his aims, I do not share his limited vision of what form they should take or how they should be achieved. I encourage Wong and those who agree with him to acknowledge that equal theatrical opportunities exist; they must only be pursued with dedication and persistence. The New Era is already here...
...clear, careful voice.Wong, on the other hand, has lived in England since he was 10 years old and went to Eton College, a fact that he says he admits “usually really quietly.”While James has been politically passionate since high school, Wong??s Facebook profile reads, “Political Views: Apathetic.” At Harvard, James ran for Undergraduate Council representative every year since he was a freshman. He won for the first time this semester as a junior, with what he says was “an overwhelming majority...