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Shakespeare in the Park presents "Julius Caesar"
Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:07 pm
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Actually, it's just an excuse to enact a murder of the President on stage.
Yes, looks poli, but seems more OT appropriate. Mods, move if necessary.
Actually, it's just an excuse to enact a murder of the President on stage.
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The choice of Julius Caesar for the annual program is one dripping with subtext, chosen deliberately for the supposed parallels between the Roman dictator and Trump. A description of the play on The Public Theater’s website states that “Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary.”
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The actor playing Caesar was dressed in a business suit, with a royal blue tie, hanging a couple inches below the belt line, with reddish-blonde hair — just like Trump,” Sheaffer told Mediaite.
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In the next scene the Trumpian Caesar is attacked by the Senators and stabbed to death as an American flag hovers overhead, according to Sheaffer. “They had the full murder scene onstage, and blood was spewing everywhere out of his body.” “To be honest I thought it was shocking and distasteful,” Sheaffer continued. “If this had happened to any other president — even as recently as Barack Obama or George W. Bush — it would not have flown. People would have been horrified.”
Yes, looks poli, but seems more OT appropriate. Mods, move if necessary.
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Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:10 pm to High C
Trump as Caesar?
It fits.
It fits.
quote:
he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:11 pm to High C
I will allow it as art, free speech and free political discourse. All fully acceptable.
Except they need to pull all their public funding and revoke their non-profit and tax exempt status.
Except they need to pull all their public funding and revoke their non-profit and tax exempt status.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:19 pm to High C
Frank: Yes. Well, when I see 5 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's my policy.
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed 5 actors! Good ones!
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed 5 actors! Good ones!
Posted on 6/6/17 at 4:38 pm to High C
Julius Caesar as I remember it doesn't really seem like an anti-Trump/Caesar message. I mean, yes Shakespeare goes out of his way to highlight Caesar's legendary arrogance but the real villains in the play are Cassius, Brutus, and the conspirators. Brutus' betrayal is considered one of the greatest in literary history and he gave a weak speech that was immediately demolished by the follow-up speech that Mark Antony gave in Caesar's defense in which he eloquently shitted on Brutus "the honorable man".
I just don't see how this fits an outrage narrative or that its presentation of (weak and obscure) parallels to Trump is quintessentially "Anti-Trump". If they wanted to do that, they could've found much uglier portrayals.
I just don't see how this fits an outrage narrative or that its presentation of (weak and obscure) parallels to Trump is quintessentially "Anti-Trump". If they wanted to do that, they could've found much uglier portrayals.
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