theater-art-writing-essay

Total word count 300, need to answer following questions:

One of the overarching themes this term will be Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in contemporary theatre. Without further information, please respond to the following:

In theatre “some representation is better than no representation” meaning that if an effort is made to diversify what’s on stage, it doesn’t matter how the “other” is represented.

Tokenism: the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.