Raz Shaw is a “White. Jewish. Middle Class. Theatre Director.”
These are Shaw’s own labels which, in his Guardian blog, he uses to describe himself and ask whether being all the above is an impediment to directing a play about the cultural divide between black Africans and Jamaicans (Torn, see review on this page). Judging from his production, it is no impediment at all.
And why should it be? We need the mix. Even better would be a black director of a Jewish play.
