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After recent casting decisions for historical figures drew contention, we spoke to experts to hear about the history of colour-blind casting.

Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, edited by Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, was published in March 2021 (Liverpool University Press). Description: Colonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of theatrical culture to the understanding of the French…