Denouncing the staging (which no one had yet seen) as "Afrophobic, colonialist and racist," protesters forced the Sorbonne to cancel a performance of The Suppliants at the university's annual festival of ancient Greek theatre. Top Sorbonne officials and government officials called the protests "absurd," while the director insisted that the production used no blackface at […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM on March 29, 2019