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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
In the portrayal of characters in fictional characters (non-animated) in the performing arts, how important is the racial appearance of the actors?
IMO, it doesn't matter one bit. In the realm of fiction, anything's possible, so how could it. The very essence of fiction and one's enjoyment of it is explained nowhere better than by Taylor Coleridge.
It was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth on the other hand was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria