On the day before the California premiere of Antoinette Nwandu’s “Pass Over,” a play about the harsh realities facing black men in America, Echo staff on July 12 sent an email to patrons and posted a notice on its website: “‘Pass Over’ is not going to open due to internal artistic differences that cannot be reconciled.”
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Firing a director so close to opening and then canceling the show is unfair to everyone involved in the design, production, and on stage process of the show as well as potential audience members. Any sort of creative disputes should have been solved much earlier and it should have been ensured that everyone was on the same page. I believe that Fields took way to many creative liberties with the show eventually overpowering Selenow. This is particularly sad as nonwhite female directors are still relatively rare occurrences. It seems to me from the article that Fields has had a history of being hard to work with, which should have been a warning sign to the Echo Theater and Selenow.
Kaisa
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