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There's nothing funny about putting racism on stage | Andrew Haydon by Andrew Haydon

In Germany, I saw a white woman dress as a gorilla to play Othello. Yet the best that Britain seems to do is Clybourne Park " a play which aims for laughs rather than a serious examination of the issuesHere's an interesting bit of cultural dislocation. A couple of days ago I watched a German production of Othello in which the title character was played by a white woman who, at one point, wears a gorilla costume. It s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM on February 21, 2011

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