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“For example, the ‘Amistad’ story happened exactly at the time when minstrelsy was starting to become the principal form of entertainment,” Davis says.

In a modern form of minstrelsy, these white musicians safely provided ‘Black’ music to white audiences.”

In what I hope is meant to suggest the falseness of these stories, Brown pounds the pastiche in the songs so hard it borders on minstrelsy: hip-hop for the fixer; fiddle schmaltz for the pilgrims.

From where I sit, the election looks like a kind of grotesque minstrelsy.

But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist minstrelsy, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.