University play shut down by playwright because actors are ::::gasp:::: white!! He writes (as he heads to his safeplace)
You should know that what you are doing is connected to a very painful history of egregious misrepresentation and invisibility, and is incredibly hurtful. Hurtful to a community for whom opportunity and visibility is critical, and also extremely hurtful to me personally as a flippant denial of Asian heritage as a relevant and valid component of one’s humanity.
It hurts me to my core. I couldn’t stop myself from crying when I saw the photos and realized what was happening. It is embarrassing, humiliating, and demoralizing to be so casually disregarded.
I therefore insist that you immediately (1) recast the play with ethnically appropriate actors, or (2) shut down the production entirely.
Someone get that boy a binky!
N.B. the Korean dude writes a play Jesus in India but objects to Caucasian actors. How many inanities can we find? Let’s see. How about, I object to a Korean dude writing about the Jewish Messiah. I object to a Korean dude writing about Indians–Kipling’s Indians, not our Indians–who put the “Indo” in “Indo-European.”
I certainly hope, for Lloyd ‘Huh?!?’ Suh’s sake, that Obamacare covers diaper sizes from cradle to grave.
And the Frankfurt School wins again!
Greetings:
Obviously not one of those roof-top Koreans from LA’s Rodney King festivities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFDQ5gyc0k
They better have a psychiatric trauma team standing by this delicate little flower when his play gets it’s first negative review.