Casting Audiences: How Theatre Passe Muraille’s ‘Black Out Nights’ Challenge Conventional Approaches to Audience

IF 0.2 3区 艺术学 0 THEATER
Signy Lynch
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Abstract:This article examines the phenomenon of Black Out Nights, evenings of a theatrical performance for Black-identified audiences only, as employed by Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Drawing on interviews with Passe Muraille’s former Marketing Coordinator Fatuma Adar and current Artistic Director Marjorie Chan, this article explores the various effects and benefits of Black Out Nights, which were first conceived by American playwright Jeremy O. Harris, for Black artists and audiences. I argue that Black Out Nights, along with Theatre Passe Muraille’s other approaches to audiences, help to reveal and to challenge larger practices of ‘casting’ audiences that are employed by mainstream theatres. These casting practices, which operate through theatres’ websites, marketing, and theatre spaces, may be unconsciously exercised but help to reinforce white supremacy and other forms of discrimination and exclusion in theatre spaces through the audiences they make feel welcome and exclude.
选角观众:剧院如何通过Muraille的“停电之夜”挑战观众的传统方式
摘要:本文探讨了多伦多Passe Muraille剧院雇用的“黑人之夜”现象,即仅为黑人观众举办的戏剧表演之夜。本文通过对Passe Muraille的前营销协调员Fatuma Adar和现任艺术总监Marjorie Chan的采访,探讨了美国剧作家Jeremy O.Harris首次构思的《黑夜》对黑人艺术家和观众的各种影响和好处。我认为,《黑幕之夜》,以及Theatre Passe Muraille对观众的其他方法,有助于揭示和挑战主流剧院采用的更大的“选角”观众做法。这些通过剧院网站、营销和剧院空间运作的选角做法可能是无意识的,但有助于通过让观众感到受欢迎和被排斥,强化剧院空间中的白人至上主义和其他形式的歧视和排斥。
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