Since the summer of Black Lives Matter, a peculiar double standard has emerged in casting
Congratulations to Ncuti Gatwa, the star of Doctor Who, on landing an exciting new role. He’s been cast in Born with Teeth, a Royal Shakespeare Company play about the relationship between the Bard and his fellow Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Mr Gatwa says the play is “like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I’ve ever seen before”.
I can well believe it. Not least because Mr Gatwa is to play Marlowe. Who, like most people in England in the early 1590s, was white.
