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The Offstage Toll It Takes To Play A Loathsome Racist Character by Artsjournal

"It can be fraught and isolating, it seems, portraying a white character activating the racial overtones of a beloved novel brought to the stage. Just ask Fred Weller, essayer of Bob Ewell, the patently evil father of Wilhelmi's Mayella, who forces her to concoct the story that sends a blameless black man, Tom Robinson, to […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM on July 12, 2019

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