Monday, December 06, 2021
'Trouble in Mind' has its long-overdue Broadway premiere
NPR: Trouble in Mind, a 1955 play by Alice Childress, looks at a company of mostly Black actors putting on an anti-lynching play by white creators. It was supposed to transfer to Broadway. But in a case of life imitating art, white producers insisted that the Black playwright provide a more upbeat ending. Childress refused.
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Reading this article has made me a bit more hopeful about the inclusion practices in the entertainment industry. As someone who has barely ever seen an accurate representation of her ethnicity on stage or in films, knowing that a play that strives to represent things the way they are, lives of people as they are on a stage and platform as large as Broadway is such an impactful step in the right direction. For almost two years now, theater companies around the country have been owning up to the white institution that they represent but somehow it is this step to mount this work on Broadway that somehow seems to be the most important step.
I feel like a company can say things and one can be inclined to appreciate them for the things that they say but it is not until that the company truly does something tangible that its words can be taken seriously.
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