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[GURPS]

Would the NYT be all cool with the edgy Shakespeare in the Park 'Julius Caeser' looking like Obama or Hillary


The New York Times vows to stand by theater despite Trump-“Julius Caesar” controversy


Here's the Times' statement:

"We have sponsored Shakespeare in the Park for 20 years. As an institution that believes in free speech for the arts as well as the media, we support the right of the Public Theater to stage the production as they chose." ​

Hopefully Delta and BofA will read it and learn something. This entire ordeal is sad and annoying because, one, free speech exists so that theater organizations can put on "edgy" shows, and, two, this show is not edgy—it's a William Shakespeare play where everyone already knows the ending. CGW

 

[Hijinx]

Would the NYT be all cool with the edgy Shakespeare in the Park 'Julius Caeser' looking like Obama or Hillary


The New York Times vows to stand by theater despite Trump-“Julius Caesar” controversy


Here's the Times' statement:

"We have sponsored Shakespeare in the Park for 20 years. As an institution that believes in free speech for the arts as well as the media, we support the right of the Public Theater to stage the production as they chose." ​

Hopefully Delta and BofA will read it and learn something. This entire ordeal is sad and annoying because, one, free speech exists so that theater organizations can put on "edgy" shows, and, two, this show is not edgy—it's a William Shakespeare play where everyone already knows the ending. CGW

There is certainly no surprise here that the NYT supports anything anti Trump/.

Delta and Bof A already know something. why piss off half of their customers.

The NYT only appeals to snowflakes so they have nothing to lose.

 

[GURPS]

The "genuinely frightening" part of the show is not the disturbing depiction of a sitting president being murdered, Variety's theater critic Marilyn Stasio explains, but the "fearsome" and "mindless" pro-Trump mob that, in the end, is the "most dangerous villain in the piece."

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As was the case with former CNN employee Kathy Griffin's grotesque Trump beheading stunt, the Public Theater and its sponsors have apparently tossed out the "assassination dog whistles" and picked up megaphones.

Stasio, of course, defends the move, attempting to downplay the assassination of Trump (it's safe to assume if that were Obama up there, the magazine's reaction would be a little different) and instead trying to focus in on the real villain of the national drama: the large percentage of the country who support Trump. Here's the beginning of the review in which Stasio smears the "fearsome" Trump supporters while downplaying the depiction of Trump's brutal murder:

Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearsome character in the show isn’t standing on stage — not even in the person of a Donald Trump-like Caesar — but instead storming the bleachers and shouting in the aisles. It’s the mindless Roman mob, or, as director Oskar Eustis’s politically slanted production slyly insinuates, it’s the ecstatic mobs at a Trump rally. Although the show whipped up controversy when funders pulled out over right-wing objections, the furor isn’t warranted: Anyone who reads the plays knows Shakespeare’s main message is that no matter how much you want to get rid of your current political leader, don’t kill him.

In most Shakespeare productions in park, mob scenes have to be taken on faith, with the same handful of actors scurrying about trying to look like legions. But this surging Roman mob has real numbers, and its fickle allegiances to one demagogic political figure after another makes it genuinely frightening.​

http://www.dailywire.com/news/17457/variety-truly-frightening-part-trump-assassination-james-barrett



Progressives did this during the Bush Years with 'Death of a President'

 

[Wishbone]

See this stuff doesn't bother me that much. The more over the top and freakish they get, the better I like it. It drives the saner, more intelligent away.

Eventually they will manage to set the spark off... And the fun will begin.

 

[Lurk]

Shouldn't Brutus be played by Ted Cruz or did the director want Brutus to be played by Mike Pence?

 

[stgislander]

Eventually they will manage to set the spark off... And the fun will begin.

Ah good times... good times.