Is it because I aint Egyptian?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

A play set in Ancient Egypt was cancelled because the cast was too white



well that's the Mikado stuffed then. FFS

King Tut was white

Actually, he probably wasn't but I wouldn't mind betting the Pharoahs were of a different lineage to most of the present day inhabitants of Egypt.

colored peaks on the computer screen proved that Tutankhamun belonged to an ancestral line, or haplogroup, called R1b1a2, that is rare in modern Egypt but common in western Europeans.

[NigelJK]

Given that Shakespeare wrote in a time where there were no Female actors, and Julius Caesar was about a society where wimmin were chattels (at best) I couldn't think of a better target to 'show 'em'.