Race-reversed casting

The concept was intended as a way to open up non-traditional character roles to more actors but has received complaints that it waters down racial differences.

[2][4] Stewart, when playing Othello, said he always paused after he said the line "Haply, for I am black" because he felt if anyone was going to voice an objection to the photo negative concept, that would be the place they would do it.

[5] The concept would be later picked up by the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Company, who would put on a performance of Antony and Cleopatra using race-reversed casting in 1999.

[6] Race-reversed casting occurred again in 2014 for a performance of Death of a Salesman in Philadelphia, United States.

[3] Theatre critics felt that race-reversed casting resulted in a neutralisation of the play's racial themes.