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I disagree.
Both the Library staff and the actress are both foolish and annoying and are both in the wrong. The library staff should have thought through their requested characters before asking certainly, but the fact she doesn't see how it might be, ya know, just a little bit weird, is pretty telling for me.
And the lawyer reading an op ed and convincing her to sue, just puts a bad taste in my mouth. It's like a legal trap kinda vibe.
At the end of the article the quote from the black actress I think eloquently summed up what feels weird about it.
As with 97% of problems (to quote Cool Hand Luke) "What we have here....is a failure....to communicate!"
It's a weird argument to make here, though, because this isn't a white actor vs. black actor question at all. The library isn't choosing between one or the other. There's only one actor, no matter what characters are being played. If they were responding by saying "Actually we want to hire a black actor to play these characters," I'd get it, and agree with that, but they aren't. They're just choosing to not have black figures represented at the performance at all, which seems... worse, somehow? I don't know.
I understand your perspective, but you've denied the existence of a choice where there is one. Does it have to be a one-person show? Of course not.
It's an interesting question, but whose responsibility are you proposing it is to find another actress? Who's paying that actress? Is the library going to pay twice as much, or is the existing actress expected to work the same amount of time for half the money to accommodate this second actress?