Before The Jungle Book opened at the Goodman Theatre , director Mary Zimmerman gave an interview with Catey Sullivan in Chicago magazine about how she handled the racism in Kipling and Disney's source material. Jamil Khoury " called Zimmerman out" on "her reckless, unexamined Orientalism " in response to that interview. The two of them then sat down and had a dialogue about it, and Khoury published Zimmerman's emaile…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM on August 13, 2013