This is rad. In June, members of a new experimental theater group calling themselves “overunder” stood out front of the Drammys, Portland’s annual theater awards, and asked attendees pointed questions about the racial makeup of Portland’s theater scene relative to the city as a whole. They’re not the first people to raise these questions—hey, I wonder if the upcoming issue of Agenda will tackle the question of diversity in theater? It might!—but I like the way they’ve framed it in this video. Trigger warning for Reedies, but worth watching.
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Valid question(s) raised. Though wouldn’t being more than just another theater group comprised of five white people be a better place to start from when asking those questions of others than merely acknowledging your privilege?