Review: “Schwarz gemacht” and the White Audience
One attends a play about an Afro-German living in the years of Nazism and
Jim Crow not because of the dramaturgy. One buys the ticket because of the topic's near absence
in the German discourse. This is not a review of the play, but rather a continuation of the
discussion with the cast that followed. As one of the cast-members remarked, it all comes down
to audience: "Black folks probably wouldn't go to the theater to see this play in the U.S., let
alone have enough money for the ticket. And here, we have a white audience. So, who are we
really talking to here? Who is seeing this play?"...
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