Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
The California Sunday Magazine:
Inside a 110,000-square-foot warehouse in northeast Los Angeles, Gregg
Bilson Jr. is showing me his blood. There’s drinkable blood, chunky
blood, dried blood, and flowing blood, all sitting in tidy rows on a
display shelf. Puddles and pools of blood — resin blood — of varying
sizes are affixed to a nearby wall. Each has its own consistency, color,
and refractive properties, which Bilson says are important distinctions
when your customers are as likely to have a favorite blood guy as they
are a favorite restaurant.
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9/11/2015 02:54:00 PM
Cultural Weekly:
In my recent review of Rob Mersola’s Luka’s Room, a play that straddled
comedy and soft porn with some dexterity but not much wit, I had to ask
myself the question (yet again): What is the point of theatre? That was
my opening line. And I attempted to answer it. Up to a point. But it
remained on my mind during Cultural Weekly’s summer hiatus and it seemed
like a good way to launch the fall season.
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9/11/2015 02:54:00 PM
The Stranger:
One winter in the early 1980s, the Empty Space Theatre was running a
production of Tartuffe when one of the actors bailed to be in a movie.
"Midrun and he was gone in two days," said Carl Sander, a longtime
theater artist who now works at the Burke Museum. Losing an actor to
another gig can be a producer's nightmare.
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9/11/2015 01:59:00 PM
HowlRound:
In my last three posts, I made the modest proposal that There Are No
Children, and defined some of the unbreached borders of the discipline.
What things are not “children’s theatre?” Taking a broad spectrum
performance studies approach, I looked at diverse examples of
performance by and for children. These examples were a far-spread range:
how children perform sexuality from Shirley Temple to Toddlers in
Tiaras; how children perform intelligence and capability from spelling
bee champions to Toddlers in Mensa; how children perform nationality
from protests of the ethnic studies ban in Arizona to mock Olympics in
China. This was an artificial and somewhat arbitrary scope of study,
and, I admit, focused heavily on my own obsessions and opinions. Isn’t
that what blogs are for?
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David
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9/09/2015 12:58:00 PM
On Being:
Even as a faithful Mormon I have to admit that the South Park
portrayals of Latter-Day Saints over the years haven’t been all bad. In
an odd way, I was honored that the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was
numbered among the “Super Best Friends” in a couple of episodes,
representing — for good and ill — all the world’s religions. But when
Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced the production of a Broadway
musical mocking Mormons exclusively, I rolled my eyes.
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9/08/2015 02:03:00 PM
1 comment:
I started this article hopeful that it was going to end with the author accepting the satire and moving on, still secure in her religion. Unfortunately that did not happen. I have seen Book of Mormon twice on Broadway, and even there people got up and left during intermission (allowing me to steal their 11th row orchestra seats, thank you very much) because, I can only assume they were offended. So I can't imagine what the audience would be like in a place where mormonism is prominent. There is a part of me that does feel sympathetic for these people who take offense to the show. But at the same time, if you didn't want to be torn apart, why go? Trey Parker and Matt Stone have not tried in the slightest to hide how incredibly rude their creation is, so I am always shocked when people are surprised at how horrible it is. The author mentions how horrible it is for conservative religious people to live in our now evolving, more accepting and equal world. My question for the author would be how do you think the rest of us have felt for all of history? A hundred years ago a gay man, or person of color, or woman, or non christian, probably felt a little more oppressed than you do right now. So my advice, don't isolate yourself from, or reject, us non super conservatives, because the tides are changing, and it will probably help you to have some ties to the majority.
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