MORE POSTS ABOUT DALLAS LES MIS PLEASE

pilferingapples:

spacestationtrustfund:

Okay, I want to talk more about casting choices, racism, and classism in theatre.

There’s this quote from an interview with Liesl Tommy, about Dallas Les Mis:

I thought about that Dallas audience, and I went down to do a couple of site visits, and I wondered, “How am I going to get this primarily white, fairly affluent Dallas audience to care about Les Miserables?”

Theatre has consistently been political, like any form of art. Art is a pushback against oppression, a way for marginalised individuals to express themselves, a way to speak out. Theatre, in of itself, is a political space.

And then you have Les Mis.

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YAAAY I am so willing to encourage all the LMD posts you feel like making!:D

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