curious to know what conversation around casting Gloria would look like

(ex. BJJ’s An Octoroon having specific racial preference breakdown for casting
Nottage self-referential?
 shift in power dynamic

knows it’s dumb, still does it

 brother?

power dynamics—who has control over who (social vs. professional)

1933 Hollywood→ enforcement of Hays Code

colorism politics
doesn’t want Vera to open the door
BJJ published in 2014
Broadway vs. Hollywood
realism/fantasy
written memory
vs. aural/verbal

movies
vs. theater
 rent>

Black vaudeville performer

omfg
gross
politics of this esp. having a white woman play Gloria
jesus
@Gloria
 movie begins
and ends in
the same place
every time
Trouble in Mind parallels
 all art
is political

Boucicoult’s
The Octoroon
 she’s remembered as Brazilian

amos and andy?

?
 still not going
to out herself

Theatre Owners
Booking Association
vaudeville circuit for
African American performers

Vera nominated, Gloria actually getting awards

work vs. recognition
suicide as a statement
stealing the moment
the life she has made does depend on it