Bartlett Sher says the cultural implications in the US made its use ‘totally unthinkable’ despite its persistence in performances of Verdis operaFor director Bartlett Sher,the decision not to use blackface in his new production of Otello that opened this week at the Metropolitan Opera in New York “wasnt all that complicated”.
“It really did seem very obvious given our cultural history and political history in the United States, that for me and my production team the understanding of putting [Othello] in blackface was totally unthinkable, and ” he said. “We can’t give in to that cultural trope.”
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Source: theguardian.com