Royal Shakespeare Company director saddened by racist reaction to cast
A theatre director said she was "saddened but not surprised" by racist reaction to her play's black cast.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Much Ado About Nothing is set in an Afro-futuristic world. Artistic director Erica Whyman said the "disgraceful" reaction came from "a minority" of people and discriminatory comments would not be tolerated.The Stratford-upon-Avon theatre announced the cast of its new production, directed by Roy Alexander Weise, in December.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, she said the company felt it "incredibly important... to look at ourselves and ask why there is so much racism in the world". "It's a responsibility for a cultural organisation like mine to make sure we're not just representing black culture on our stage but actually trying to to properly understand what has been missing from our cultural world," she said.
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