Read the following article by literary manager Jonathan L. Green of The Goodman Theatre, Chicago:http://www.onstage.goodmantheatre.org/2015/09/06/disgraced-and-islamic-art-the-gap-between-optics-and-truth/Green states:Misrepresentation begins first with simplified representationthese are the building blocks of stereotyping and, further, racializingwhether in 2-D art or in popular society. What are we showing when we reveal or hide depictions of ourselves? Amirs ancestral culture placed great value on character, on belief, on truth, shunning representative figuration, relying instead on principles of unity and universality. On what sort of representation does our own culture place value? 1. Choose a character from either Disgraced or In The Blood. How was he/she represented and why? How do we represent for arts sake without misrepresenting? [200 word minimum]2. What is your personal response to (or experience of) representation or misrepresentation? (especially as students of the theatre, wherein we practice the art of ‘representation’) [200 word minimum]3. On what sort of representation does our own culture place value? [no word minimum]
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