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This week's new theatre and dance by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner, Judith Mackrell

Blackta, LondonIn these days of integrated casting, you'd think it would be easier for actors from ethnic minorities to get parts. Not so. Theatre is still mostly created, and watched, by the white middle class. As a result, actor-turned-writer Nathaniel Martello-White has penned the satirical Blackta, a talent-contest scenario exposing the reality of trying to make it as a black actor: the crazy auditions, the compe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM on October 19, 2012

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