The classics are old enough and specialized enough that we should let race go, I think.
But that means any race can play Othello in play or opera, the same for Turandot, Aida, Madame Butterfly, any creed can play Shylock. The Greek tragedies are open.
That said, this black actress is miscast for Juliet, I think. The role requires a physical delicacy that she does not have.
She’s a big strapping girl with the hint of a mustache.
“But that means any race can play Othello in play or opera...”
What are your plans for the part where Othello is described as black?
I liked the one with Leonardo DiCaprio in Los Angeles. I thought it was well done. And it was different.
Let me see how I can pull it off with different races.
Romeo would be a hispanic male. Juliet a black female. They meet at the University of Miami and fall in love. But they find out that their families are gangsters and theyre fighting over similar territory (drug war?). So it's a forbidden love. I wouldn't mention their last names at all because Capulet and Montague are Italian names.
Now that's not too difficult. But woke Hollywood is too stupid to be able to pull it off nowadays.