Theatre should turn its back on blackface
The idea of white actors making themselves up as black is shocking to most of us " and yet a theatre in Germany has seen fit to continue the tradition. Why?Most news stories " government in trouble, BBC in crisis " are cyclical, but it was startling to read about a cultural row that I had never expected to come round again. Last week, the American dramatist Bruce Norris called for a boycott of German theatres which c…