Posted on 04/23/2015 3:05:25 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Vactor Philip Casnoff hadn't read the full script yet when he arrived for the first rehearsal of "Ferguson," a play chronicling the shooting of Michael Brown by a Missouri police officer.
Casnoff thought he knew what the play, set for a four-day staged reading starting Sunday at the Odyssey Theater, would be about: the wilderness of testimony the grand jury navigated while investigating the day Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot the unarmed 18-year-old. Casnoff presumed a variety of viewpoints, the fog of truth.
Then he read the script, which tells the story that Brown didn't have his hands up and that he charged at Wilson.
It felt like the purpose of the piece was to show, 'Of course he was not indicted -- here's why.' - Philip Casnoff, former 'Ferguson' cast member
Now, in a case of art imitating life, the play is experiencing the kind of ill will and mistrust that erupted from the city it attempts to portray. Part of the 13-member cast is in revolt — Casnoff and four others have quit — as the playwright and actors are locked in a fundamental disagreement over how to tell the story of Brown's death.
Though the grand jury declined to indict Wilson after some witnesses and physical evidence supported his account of events, the tone of the play shocked some actors.
"It felt like the purpose of the piece was to show, 'Of course he was not indicted — here's why,'" Casnoff said. He said that after he learned who the play's author was, Casnoff, who describes himself as "very liberal, left-wing-leaning," thought, "Whoa, this is not the place for me to be."
Through testimony taken from grand jury transcripts, the play ends with a witness telling a prosecutor that Wilson was justified in killing Brown.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I admire the moxie of the guy who’s trying to stage this, but I question the sanity of staging it in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica. Of COURSE you are going to get this censorious, cover-ears-and-yell-LA-LA-LA response from the leftists here.
I think the truth causes real physical & mental pain for liberals.
Liberals don’t want to be confused by the facts.
I’m sure the self esteem police are on their way to arrest this person for daring to tell the truth.
So it told the truth, and the actors got all butthurt over it.
Lol.
It’s their kryptonite...
Actors, the jist of their career is lying.
They can’t handle the truth!
Uh, the overwhelming weight of witnesses and evidence supported Wilson's account of events. Just like the dopey actors, the LAT has its head in the sand and refuses to look at the facts. The narrative was that an innocent, poor black boy was shot by the evil white police and it will remain that way, facts be damned.
Liberals hate the truth... they want lies.
That’s what I thought, too.
There was no contrary evidence. There were contrary witnesses, most of whom recanted when confronted with the evidence.
He’s a good vactor.
To be a bit more specific, it's in the liberal enclave of West Los Angeles. It's on the wrong side of the 405 to be in Santa Monica.
We lived 4 miles South of there until we got clever enough to leave 16 years ago...:^)
It could be that the writer’s motive was revealing the truth. What were the motives of the actors? Suppressing the truth? Perpetuating a myth?
Ferguson the Musical...With such memorable songs as...
How many dindus did dindu do if a dindu dindu nuffin.
Burn this bitch down
Lootin’ in the rain
Rillos, blunts, and drank
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