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Lee Lewis Lee Lewis i(A103535 works by)
Born: Established: 1970 Chicago, Illinois,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1977
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1 5 y separately published work icon Cross-Racial Casting : Changing the Faces of Australian Theatre Lee Lewis , Sydney : Currency House , 2007 Z1402702 2007 single work criticism

'Mainstream theatre in Australia is very white. Too white. Why are we falling behind the rest of the theatrical world in seeing complex diverse casts onstage in our major theatre companies? When you ask this question of theatre practitioners, an awful discourse of blame begins: agents blame casting directors, drama schools blame 'the industry', everyone blames artistic directors. Talking about racism in Australia is difficult in the climate of indignant denial. Our vocabulary and strategies for discussing it publicly have become inadequate. ' (Publisher's blurb)
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