non-traditional

non-traditional
   (casting)
   using a black actor in a role written for a white
   Stage jargon:
    ... the term 'non-traditional' is inadequate. What we have is theatrical PC. (Daily Telegraph, 6 February 1993 — a black actor without make-up had been cast to play the part of a white New Englander)

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