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Thursday, 11 June 2020

Important summer Reading - we see you.

This is a recent open letter from people working in Theatre in USA - We See You.

The signatories include the Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn NottageSuzan-Lori ParksQuiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda; the film and television stars Viola Davis and Blair Underwood; and many Tony Award winners, including the actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the playwright David Henry Hwang, who is the chair of the American Theater Wing and choreographers such as Dianne McIntyre.  

The statement, outlining a series of ways in which, it argues, artists of color are unjustly treated in the theater world, declares itself to be “in the legacy of August Wilson’s ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’,” an important 1996 speech by the playwright about race and the American theater. Headlined “We See You, White American Theater,” the statement repeatedly uses the phrase “we see you” to punctuate its observations about the theater world, and adds, “We have always seen you. And now you will see us".


http://bway.ly/i23u2a#https://www.weseeyouwat.com/

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