Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:31 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] An Alumni Week surprise with puppet protest reaction


>Reminded me of my favorite "blackface" production.
>1967, SFMT, The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel
>Multi-racial cast, where both African American and Caucasian
>performers wore blackface.

Saw it too.  Impossible to tell, during the show, the race of the 
performers:  heavy blackface, white lips, shiny baby-blue suits, and 
white gloves.  It was only revealed at the very end of the curtain 
call, when all the performers removed their gloves and we saw the 
color of their hands.  Then the white performers left the stage and 
the black performers lugged the furniture off.

Cheers-
Conrad B.
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