Michelle Terry as Richard in Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe. The theatre faced widespread criticism when Terry’s casting was announced.Michelle Terry as Richard in Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe. The theatre faced widespread criticism when Terry’s casting was announced.
“We’re interpreting a 400-year-old play,” said Terry in her first interview since the casting announcement. “ felt disproportionate to what a play can actually do, in terms of being able to really dig into the inequities of a society.” Ben Wilson, an actor who is blind, described it as a case of “cripping up”, while the Disabled Artists Alliance published an open letter, signed by more than 100 people and organisations in theatre and the arts, calling for “an immediate recast”.Criticism of Terry being cast in the role follows a number of recent portrayals of Richard III by disabled actors.
Terry said her production questions Shakespeare’s exaggeration of the early modern belief that disability was an outward expression of inner evil, instead exploring Richard for what he was – a murderer and a sexual predator. She emphasised parallels between the play and the world today, where people are “still seduced by the charisma of evil”. “Men like Richard are everywhere, and they continue to hold positions of power. Even when the accusations and the evidence is so clear, they still continue to get away with it.”
Asked if she would cast a white Othello or a non-Jewish Sherlock, Terry said she would consider it if the interrogation was “kind and necessary” enough.
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