Changing ‘Measure,’ Measuring the Changes
In trying to fix one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, did we create a new race issue? A fair note, but here’s the backstory.
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In trying to fix one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, did we create a new race issue? A fair note, but here’s the backstory.
Given the chance to play Claudio as a black man, neither I nor our production took the racial implications lightly.