By Seeking ‘Safer Spaces’ for Actors, We’re Creating a Hostile Environment for Art

I honestly have no idea why any actor would want to appear in a serious play featuring protagonists who are not, in some way, “screwed up.”

Sky Gilbert

7 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

Scene from a 1926 Moscow Art Theatre production of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Days of the Turbins, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.

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