It doesn't sound like something I'd like to see anyway but then, I'm not a woke Harvard snowflake
/Harvard Hosts a Shakespearean Extravaganza — but Only for Black People
Thank goodness white students identifying as black will be allowed entry, but in accordance with Harvard’s admission policy, no Asians need apply.*
From the advertisement:
MACBETH IN STRIDE
Black Out Performance
We have designated this performance to be an exclusive space for Black-identifying audience members.
For our non-Black allies, we appreciate your support in making this a completely Black-identifying evening. We invite you to join us at another performance during the run.
As for Harvard’s Macbeth in Stride, the “dazzling theatrical event” “examines what it means to be an ambitious Black woman through the lens of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters.”
So describes the school’s American Repertory Theater (A.R.T).
And the play’s got plenty of pizazz:
[T]he production uses pop, rock, gospel, and R&B to trace the fatalistic arc of Lady Macbeth while lifting up contemporary Black female power, femininity, and desire.
Is there a future corporate raider on campus who wouldn’t eat this up? How cruel to deny the non-privileged that experience.
Interestingly enough, Harvard forces campus male and female choruses to accept members of the opposite gender (and also the “just-confused”, one assumes), because “equality”.
*Cal-Tech, with no Asian limitation policy, vs the Ivies:As the Asian-American population has increased, the Ivies haven’t budged.