GOOD

Director Madeline Sayet says, “Whether it’s blackface, yellowface, or redface, we are not costumes for you to put on. The issue is the reduction of humanity. Not the makeup, but the objectification and dehumanization of people…. If you have the opportunity to envision a better future, or reconstruct an ugly past, why not choose to make a world where every child can be the hero—since, nowadays they actually can be?” 

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Sean Panikkar as Tamino and Jacqueline Echols as Pamina in The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2015 production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Photo: Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival