The defacing of a publicity poster for a theater production at UW-Madison prompts a letter from school officials, urging students to watch for, and confront racial insensitivity.
The poster depicted Japanese women and others in connection with the staging of the production “Tea,” with the vandalism involving the obscuring of the women’s faces in yellow. The play is about Japanese women marrying U.S. servicemen and returning with them to live in the United States.
“Here we are doing this Asian American play and someone sees fit to do something like this,” “Tea” director and UW School of Education professor David Furumoto says.