Rubies in the crown: A conversation on racial representation in Canadian theatre with Karen Robinson
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Karen Robinson is one of Canada’s leading black actresses. Over the past twenty years, she has figured in more than 40 theatre productions, as well as in national and international TV series and films. A race-conscious artist actively engaged in portraying diverse representations of blackness on and beyond the Canadian stage, Robinson has acted in black-authored plays that have risen to canonical status, embodying memorable black female characters such as Billie in Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet and Esther in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel. In this interview conducted in July 2016, Robinson shares some memories of the 2006 production of Harlem Duet at the Stratford Festival (Ontario, Canada), as well as her views on acting, colourblind casting, the revolutionary power of black women’s theatre, and the social relevance of individual and collective acts of resistance in a predominantly male, white-dominated cultural arena.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.080 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".