Hellen Mirren Against Reading Shakespeare in Schools Nov 30
2020, 06:36:39 AM
joevitus said: "HogansHero said: "speaking as someone who has taken my fair share of kids to their first exposure to Shakespeare, I think you underestimate them. Although of course there are teachers who manage to create an enriching experience, a random sampling of adults not involved in the theatre will tell you it's boring, and that assessment is most often based 100% on their 9th grade class"
The big issue is that it would be disastrous for an in
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Hellen Mirren Against Reading Shakespeare in Schools Nov 30
2020, 06:36:37 AM
joevitus said: "HogansHero said: "speaking as someone who has taken my fair share of kids to their first exposure to Shakespeare, I think you underestimate them. Although of course there are teachers who manage to create an enriching experience, a random sampling of adults not involved in the theatre will tell you it's boring, and that assessment is most often based 100% on their 9th grade class"
The big issue is that it would be disastrous for an in
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Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit Nov 7
2020, 10:27:14 PM
Whenever I catch a rerun of MASH I'm always impressed at how good she was on that show.
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Color-blind and gender-blind casting Oct 30
2020, 11:38:17 AM
I'm surprised at the number of people who don't seem to understand the concept of color blind casting in regards to the recent Carousel revival.
I assume most of the audience understood that having a black man play Billy didn't mean the production was making Billy a black character. We were meant to ignore it, and ignoring the actor's race wasn't to much to ask, especially because we got to hear this score sung so well.
Talk about miscegenation laws in the nineteenth century is neither
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Sasha Baron Cohen as Tevye Oct 27
2020, 09:23:32 AM
henrikegerman said: "this chain is going some very strange places
thought was mine and I'm not his publicist"
I think the poster meant that the anecdote about SBC auditioning for Sweeney by singing the Fiddler score may have been planted by a publicist.
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