Jim Burke: Equity and diversity

Last February, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde mounted an epic production of Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechuan featuring a cast of 18. Not one of the actors was of Asian descent.
It wasn’t quite a ring-the-alarums moment like that of Théâtre Rideau Vert’s “blackface” incident at the end of 2014, but it clearly registered enough to get a mention in two recent op-eds from anglophone theatre directors, both published in the Montreal Gazette. One w