"Most admirable about Theatre & Race is Young's ability to capture the complexity and ambiguity, indeed the messiness, of the performance of race, while remaining crystalline in his language and relatable in his examples. With its theoretical sophistication and lucidity, the book is a welcome addition to the Theatre &... series, which is meant to be accessible to a wide readership as well as representative of the 'cutting edge of critical thinking in the discipline'" - Theatre Research International 

The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Editors' Preface
1. Race as Theatre
2. Racializing the Other in 
the Classical Era
3. Cultural Anxieties in the Elizabethan Period
4. Blackface
5. Other Faces
6. Colorblind and Color Conscious Casting
7. Conclusion: Post-race Theatre
Further Reading

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REVIEWS

"This is a very short book that takes on a deeply significant topic." - British Theatre Guide

"The wonderful Theatre & series aims to put innovative scholarship on a wide variety of subjects into the hands of students, an admirable goal assisted by low costs and short lengths, Harvey Young's Theatre & Race is another worthy volume...a clearly written book that engages with recent theories of race and performance studies." - Theatre Survey