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re: Check in for To Kill a Mockingbird play at Saenger
Posted on 6/4/23 at 6:58 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 6/4/23 at 6:58 pm to prplhze2000
Isn't people trying to cancel this book?
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Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:01 pm to jmon
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you forgot to mention how the play tries to use modern opinions on perceived police violence towards black people and apply it to the 1950's, aka the suspect getting shot 17 times. I believe that is very far from the book and over exaggerated. Also, the accent of the girl playin Scout was pretty bad. Play was ok, not excellent, and kind of a letdown from the book and film.
JMHO
Just tell us you never read it..
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:02 pm to prplhze2000
saw it in Houston a few months ago...it was fantastic...
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:03 pm to prplhze2000
I know a few who went. I book bored me so wasn’t interested.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:25 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
quote:My wife went this week and the back of the playbill has some guy wearing shiny boots and some type of sheer shirt with a rainbow header. My 4 yr old picked it up and asked “daddy is that a girl or a boy”?
was gonna go but I saw on the Facebook that the Playbill had a rainbow header. Who would’ve thought the pride folks would take over theatre too
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:34 pm to prplhze2000
I thought it was fantastic. NOT a fan of Scout’s accent. But otherwise it was so very good.
Interesting tidbit I learned. The actress who played Mrs Dubose in the play was the original Scout in the movie when she was a girl. I thought that was cool.
Interesting tidbit I learned. The actress who played Mrs Dubose in the play was the original Scout in the movie when she was a girl. I thought that was cool.
This post was edited on 6/4/23 at 7:35 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:51 pm to prplhze2000
Saw it 2 weeks ago in Dallas. It was really good. The set transitions were incredible by themselves. I’m not sure if Harper Lee is required reading in Texas like it was in Alabama, but the audible gasps when the first few “hard Rs” were dropped was amusing.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:33 pm to prplhze2000
I think this board has a few Bob Ewell's.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:07 pm to chinese58
Ya think?
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:15 pm to Iron Lion
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She didn't even write the first book
Posted on 6/5/23 at 3:33 pm to Mr Breeze
He was late
Posted on 6/5/23 at 4:21 pm to saderade
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My wife went this week and the back of the playbill has some guy wearing shiny boots and some type of sheer shirt with a rainbow header. My 4 yr old picked it up and asked “daddy is that a girl or a boy”?
He'll learn all about that stuff next year in public school.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 2:49 pm to Chicken
wait. YOU? You go to plays? who would've thought.
Posted on 11/18/23 at 4:04 pm to blueboy
I read "Go Set A Watchman" and there were a lot of Atticus Finch's even in the seventies. Those men were actually the more tolerant folks. They were sympathetic of the plight of blacks and wanted to help them. Jimmy Carter in his younger days is a good example. They felt they should help the blacks and did. What they never really accepted was that the blacks of those days could do things whites were doing. Atticus told Scout something about the blacks not being ready to run the town or something like that. They came by those opinions honestly--blacks in those days were uneducated and most in rural areas had very little reading and writing abilities.
Were the attitudes of Atticus racist attitudes? certainly by today's standards they were. But we know Atticus defended Tom and few if any more would.
My observations are that the racism of my youth is different from the racism of today. Back then many believed blacks incapable of a lot of things that required education. They didn't think a black could be a quarterback for example. Today I think the racism is based more on cultural differences and most of it is learned from observation and experience IMHO.
Were the attitudes of Atticus racist attitudes? certainly by today's standards they were. But we know Atticus defended Tom and few if any more would.
My observations are that the racism of my youth is different from the racism of today. Back then many believed blacks incapable of a lot of things that required education. They didn't think a black could be a quarterback for example. Today I think the racism is based more on cultural differences and most of it is learned from observation and experience IMHO.
This post was edited on 11/18/23 at 4:05 pm
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