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...putting black models on stage Eleganza provides the opportunity for people in BlackCAST to become involved in different capacities, including the more technical side such as set building and lighting. “As far as I’m concerned it’s still aligned with BlackCAST??s mission,” Mason says. “Theatre and fashion might be two different worlds but there is a lot of overlap.LOINCLOTHS ON THE CATWALKDespite Mason’s disregard of the criticism leveled at Eleganza concerning its allegedly stereotypical depiction of black sexuality, members...
...gotta kill somebody everyday or you don’t get any supper,” Sheriff Hartman intones in the first act of BlackCAST??s “The Front Page,” beginning a night full of power plays and deception. Though the play was written in the 1920s, BlackCAST set its production in a Chicago newsroom from the 1950s, a time in which women and blacks were starting to infiltrate a predominantly white male workforce. “The Front Page,” which was present last weekend in the Aggasiz Theatre, relies...
...diversity. Accordingly, “The Front Page”—a play written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur that was first produced in 1928—attests to this stereotype, characterizing journalism as an elitist gentlemen’s club. But in BlackCast??s current production of the play—which opened last night and will run through Nov. 15 in the Agassiz Theatre—director Andrew C. Coles ’09 takes creative liberties to accurately portray modern society’s heterogeneity. Browsing the original cast...
...person.” As Strong puts it, “I’ve seen lot of independent productions within the HRDC, but I find home within Blackcast. There’s family.”This semester, Elmore chose to turn down the role of Dorothy in BlackCAST??s production of “The Wiz” and instead take the role of Olivia in Hyperion Theater Company’s production of “Twelfth Night.” It was difficult to say no to BlackCAST, she says, but even before...
There is a theater crowd on every campus; they’re the students whose names you see over and over again on playbills, either under cast or production crew or both. The majority of the cast in BlackCAST??s production of “Fabulation” do not belong to this crowd. But I sure hope they join, because there are a couple of sensational actors in that show who I want to see over and over again...