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Friday, November 10, 2017
Director details frustration leading up to cancellation of ‘Buyer Beware’
brandeishoot.com: Frustrations with communication from the theater department and suggestions to move the performance off-campus preceded playwright Michael Weller’s ’65 decision to cancel the Brandeis debut of “Buyer Beware,” according to Weller and the play’s director Sam Weisman ’73.
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This is probably going to be a super controversial comment. If you are so easily offended by a play or what someone says, you need to grow a thicker skin. Get over yourself and move on. Reading this article just makes me not like this theatre department more and more. So a few undergraduate reps got all bunched up because of the content of the play. BooHoo. So because your feelings were hurt because for whatever reason you can’t handle strong language or themes, or a work or use of a particular word, a show gets cancelled and work done by designers and so forth get’s scrapped. I hope you’re happy with yourself because it’s people like you who ruin the theatre for the rest of us. Instead of staging this play, having open dialogue about the content, and really getting the students involved to really create an educational opportunity for learning. But no, based on the reading of this article, one student got all in a huff and got upset and worked to have a play shut down. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that only you were allowed free speech and the rest of us has to be censored. Come into the light Carol Ann. The world does not function that way.
1 comment:
This is probably going to be a super controversial comment. If you are so easily offended by a play or what someone says, you need to grow a thicker skin. Get over yourself and move on. Reading this article just makes me not like this theatre department more and more. So a few undergraduate reps got all bunched up because of the content of the play. BooHoo. So because your feelings were hurt because for whatever reason you can’t handle strong language or themes, or a work or use of a particular word, a show gets cancelled and work done by designers and so forth get’s scrapped. I hope you’re happy with yourself because it’s people like you who ruin the theatre for the rest of us. Instead of staging this play, having open dialogue about the content, and really getting the students involved to really create an educational opportunity for learning. But no, based on the reading of this article, one student got all in a huff and got upset and worked to have a play shut down. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that only you were allowed free speech and the rest of us has to be censored. Come into the light Carol Ann. The world does not function that way.
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