Michelle Terry, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, has called the backlash to her casting as Richard III “disproportionate” and said much of the anger aimed towards her in recent months has been misogynistic. The Globe faced widespread criticism when it was announced that Terry, an Olivier award-winning actor and writer, would play Shakespeare’s “deformd, unfinish’d” king in its summer production opening on Tuesday night. Actors and disability groups said the role could not be successfully performed by a non-physically disabled lead actor, and that the decision contravened the Globe’s ethos of diversity and inclusion. “We’re interpreting a 400-year-old play,”...
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