A.R.T. intimidates life:
Upcoming 1776 Revival to Feature Entirely Female, Nonbinary, Trans, Genderqueer Company
Theater Mania | April 16, 2020 | David GordonAmerican Repertory Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming production of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1776, directed by Diane Paulus and choreographed by Jeffrey L. Page. The entire multiracial company is made up of artists who identify as female, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.
Don’t we hold certain truths to be self-evident?
The song “It Plays the Violin” will leave the audience confused.
It is self evident that this nation is going insane…and that’s certainly the truth.
How can such progressive people play slave owners?
They’re willing… for the shilling.
The song “It Plays the Violin” will leave the audience confuse
What audience?
Them.
Those?
What’s the plural of “none”?
A whole lotta nothing.
I find it interesting that — on my computer, at least — one of the suggested “Related” links is to a January 30th post about a possible female Willy Wonka, called “Auugh! Please, Please Make It Stop!”
Now, none of the words (except perhaps “casting”) in these two posts are identical — only the concepts.
So, either there were humans tagging both posts in similar terms that made them match up, or else the Artificial Intelligence algorithms are getting scarily analytical, aware of relationships, and efficient.
If Artificial Intelligence is getting more sophisticated at recognizing meanings and implications, maybe we should too.
Or could your browser be trying to push an agenda on you?
Well, that’s what I mean: is my browser using humans who recognize similarities in the two posts, or are there machines who don’t only parse words (because the words aren’t at all similar in the two posts) but can parse meanings — i.e., women playing men’s roles, though not stated in the same words in the two different posts?
Just look at my original post above. Where is the word “woman” or “man” used? Yet it links to a post about Willy Wonka being played by a female. If “female” were the trigger, a lot of other posts would have popped up. Babesleaga ones, for instance. It’s the concept it homed in on, somehow.
Get another browser.
Quickly.
But you didn’t hear it from me.
Funny — my browser just said “Ask Walrus about the summer of ’84, ice cream cones on the beach, the girl in the white tank top, shorts, flip-flops.” Geez, that’s a heck of a browser!
I deny everything.
I’m not displeased. I would love for the perpetually offended and oppressed to start invading and taking over concepts that only we retrograde whites have owned in the past — liberty, personal freedom matched with personal responsibility, distrust of centralized government power.
If they rewrite the play to fit their sensibilities, that’s bad. But minority generfluid persons playing Jefferson and Washington might inspire similar folks to consider some of those ideas.
Dare I suggest that a trans globalist could turn into something much better — a trans american? I’d much rather see a bunch of Trans Ams.
“Anything you can do, I can do better” – motto of unemployable actors everywhere…