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- From: Laurel.Gealt@f201.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Laurel Gealt)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: ACTORS
- Message-ID: <25486@handicap.news>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:06:56 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
-
- I sent this message before, and I got no replies. I don't know
- whether this is because no one is interested in the subject, or
- whether my message just got lost. So I am sending it again.
-
- What does everyone think about deaf protests against the use of
- hearing actors in deaf roles? The Asians also do this. They
- recently mounted a big campaign against a play that planned to cast
- a white person in an Asian role. I think that this is incredibly
- stupid. Don't these people understand what an actor is? The whole
- job of an actor is to play people who are different from what the
- actor really is. If you carry this out all the way, you could only
- have a married actor playing the role of a married man, and you
- could only have a divorced actor playing the role of a divorced
- man.
-
- And, if there is a role for a character with a 12 year old son and
- a 9 year old daughter, you could only cast an actor with a 12 year
- old son and a nine year old daughter in the role. I don't think
- that these Deaf and Asians actors are really idealists fighting for
- a cause. They just want jobs.
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