It has been performed here a few times, with all white performers. Like your situation Nyria, here there is a lack of black performers or those prepared to prance the boards.

Invariably it is easier to aviod doing shows that call for any colour, other than white, I know I have tried. The last one I did called for a West Indies lady of large proportions. Luckily we had an American male from New Mexico, who was prepared to don a fat suit & dress in drag. Which caught the punters by surprise each night, when he took the bows, as a male holding the fat suit.

A very old friend of mine, here in Perth, is just about to embark on a production of 'Second Samuel' by Pam Parker {American Playwright (ossie Parker)}, which requires an Afro american actor, as the lead. After my friend Suse contacted the author & said she would like to do the play, but there are no black American actors available localy. Pam contacted suse back with "would you like me to send you the actor [Nat Martin] who played it in the USA?"

And this is the result;-

 

 

There's more themes than just the black/white issue...

 

Ya - it's a joke - I have nothing better to do with my time. 

 

I have not seen the play but I have seen the movie -- and if all you got out of it was the race division then you missed a lot of it.

Maybe the play is only about that - I don't know.

 

But I was asking because as I said - I haven't seen it - but my students really wanted to do it.   Sometimes plays have different versions so different people can perform it.

 

SKIN by Dennis Foon has 2 versions - one with black characters - the other with Native characters (the first written for an LA audeince the 2nd for a Vancouver audience).