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“I told Sam: I don’t work on colorblind productions,” says Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson, who served as a somewhat unusually hands-on dramaturge. Macbeth, the BCG Girls’ Girls Support Cotton Graphic shirt Furthermore, I will do this scholar points out, is the “Blackest play that people don’t think is about race,” both in its language (“black Macbeth”) and its performance history: There was the early-19th-century Black actor sensation Ira Aldridge, who portrayed the doomed Scottish warrior in whiteface, and Orson Welles’s Haitian-inflected “Voodoo Macbeth,” staged with the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit in Harlem in 1936, a production estimated to have drawn a crowd of 10,000 to its opening night. As part of the workshop, Thompson spent time with Negga and Craig before the rest of the cast was brought in, during which, she says, she was able to ask the former Bond questions like: “Have you thought about how your whiteness plays?” In other words, as she puts it, it wasn’t just a conversation for the actors of color. “We’re not ignoring it,” says Craig, “neither are we making a huge statement about it—that would be wrong as well.”
“The word colorblind has always made me a bit uncomfortable,” says Negga. “It defeats the BCG Girls’ Girls Support Cotton Graphic shirt Furthermore, I will do this purpose—to be blind to something that has traditionally been marginalized.” The 40-year-old actor was born in Addis Ababa to an Irish mother and Ethiopian father, but spent most of her childhood and young adulthood in Ireland and England, where, as a Black Irish person, she presented something of a conundrum to her classmates in London. “I was seen as strange,” she says, “maybe people hadn’t met people like me before. I felt on the outside a lot and—well, being a teenager is shit anyway, isn’t it?” she says, laughing. “I did definitely isolate myself quite a bit.” Her career has thoughtfully circled depictions of race-related struggle, and some of that work will continue in her next project, a limited series based on the life of Josephine Baker. She insists, however, that currently her “head is completely up Shakespeare’s arse” when I press for details on the upcoming project.
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