I had assumed that it was a joke, but nope.
Experience The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Shakespeare’s tragedy starring Danai Gurira in the title role. Recorded live in July 2022 from Central Park.
www.pbs.org
Fortunately it's just a play and not a Netflix special... for now.
Plays and theatre I can sort-of understand because colour-blind casting has been a thing for centuries by this point.
However, in this modern climate? It's just a bad idea,
period. Usually it's less about colour-blind casting and more about an agenda, as we see with the BBC, Netflix, et cetera, and people take it as such.
A good example? The original stage play of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child had a colour-blind casting of Hermione -- the Black actress played the role well. Even twenty years ago, people would've understood/be fine with this, knowing that it
wasn't some statement that Hermione the
character was Black but it was just colour-blind casting in action.
However, when it came out? You've got wokies and other people out there hellbent on believing that Hermione was always Black, and this example of colour-blind casting confirmed it. It was affirmation in their eyes.
Conversely, if they did a stage play of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, or Malcom X with colour-blind casting e.g. a White actor/actress? They'd go fucking batshit insane.
Blame the wokies for pissing in the drinking water. Fucking social plague rats.