The Offstage Toll It Takes To Play A Loathsome Racist Character

“It can be fraught and isolating, it seems, portraying a white characteractivating the racial overtones of a beloved novel brought to the stage.Just ask Fred Weller, essayer of Bob Ewell, the patently evil father ofWilhelmi’s Mayella, who forces her to concoct the story that sends ablameless black man, Tom Robinson, to prison for rape.” – Washington Post