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December 29, 2006
Rachel Corrie: Dismissed on the Merits
Good for Canada, or at least one theater production company therein.
Toronto's Canadian Stage Company has decided not to stage My Name is Rachel Corrie, the controversial play about an American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer.And this decision comes from someone originally interested in the play, and moved by reading it, deciding that the play did not work dramatically on the stage:It was a decision based on the play's merits, rather than the
political controversy that dogs it, CanStage artistic producer Martin
Bragg said in an interview with CBC.ca.
"It was an artistic decision," said Bragg, who saw the play in New
York. "It just didn't work on stage."
"If you cut through the hysteria around this play — which is being
created by people who haven't read this play or gone to see it — the
real problem was, no one went to see it," he said.
A dramatic failure. Good for him. Not everyone likes to pay for
an evening of undiluted propaganda.
Hat tip: Pamela
Alcibiades | 12/29/06 at 12:25 PM | Categories: - Antisemitism watch
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I wonder if the Canadians will be deludged by a load of squealing British drama types in hysterics over the triumph of Zionist oppression on the Canadian theater scene.
Rob | December 29, 2006 01:27 PM
That's why this story is so great. The guy was moved by his reading of the play - but, as an artist, he felt that it was a dramatic failure in NY. He said the audience was only half full and applauded half heartedly.
Where's the room for Zionist oppressors to have influenced him?
Unless of course it has all moved into the realm of the subliminal.
Alcibiades | December 29, 2006 01:55 PM
The word from NYC was that the theater was always half-full and someone behind the scenes was paying to keep it running through the end of the year.
Judith | December 29, 2006 03:51 PM
It looks like public demand wins in the end.
It was not like it was the feel good play of the year.
Rob | December 29, 2006 04:28 PM
The problem was that it really wasn't much of a play. a play about Rachel Corrie could be very sympathetic to her and dramatically interesting without taking every word of hers as gospel and making a polemic about it. It wouldn't have to be a feel-good play.
I touched on this in my post about the talkback with her parents.
Judith | December 30, 2006 04:03 AM
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