To quote from this weeks edition of "The Stage", a UK paper for theatrical types:

"Theatre Royal, Stratford East is to stage a contraversial revival of Jean Genet's The Blacks - in which a black actress will be 'whited up' to play the Queen - to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and a major conference discussing diversity within the arts."

We've discussed 'blacking up' at some length in other threads, so I'd rather we didn't go down that road again (though threads go where they will, of course). I'm more interested in whether people's attitudes are consistant in the cases of 'whiting up' and 'blacking up', and if not, do they feel the inconsistancy matters?

-- thinking about which is, I guess, part of the reason they are performing the play in the first place ...