www.clydefitchreport.com: When Hillary Rodham Clinton famously coined the phrase “It takes a village,” she referred to the need for a safe and supportive community to raise children. It’s a lovely image, but the cynic in me can’t help but to face the reality that some children will inevitably stray from the village. Some will horrify us enough to land on the registry for sex offenders. If we extend the metaphor, then, does it take a village to rehabilitate sex offenders? Do these individuals deserve to reintegrate into the village after they betrayed what it stands for? Do we cast them into sugarcane isolation? Or is that more of a community than they deserve?
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"Good. Let us squirm. Our seats have become far too comfortable". This line that ends the article is exactly how I was feeling while reading the article. Documentary theater has become more and more relevant these days with playwrights like Anna Deavere Smith creating work that portrays real people in an accurate light. As I was reading the article, I felt myself taking out my red marker and starting to draw the line as to whether or not i think this should even be a show in the first place. By the end of the article I was certainly intrigued, the idea of showing the rehabilitated and the wicked side by side is jarring, intense, and rather disturbing on stage. I'm curious to see what question this show asks, will this be a story about not judging a book by its cover and risk glorifying sexual offenders or will it state the obvious and just keep audiences uncomfortable with no new lesson. A show like this must be created and played with the utmost level of respect and delicacy to the topic itself.
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