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Staging Stain Upon the Snow: Performance as a critical enfleshment of whiteness

Scholars in the emerging field of critical white studies maintain that as a result of the naturalization of whiteness, the vast majority of whites are blind to the power and privilege afforded by whiteness. This essay reflects on a production that attempted to put the spotlight on whiteness. Written from the points of view of the director and a performer, this essay reflects on the process of using reiterative stagings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" to underscore the performative constitution of whiteness.