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‘FERGUSON’ PLAY CAST MEMBERS QUIT AFTER LEARNING TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING
Breitbart ^ | 4/22/15 | Daniel Nussbaum

Posted on 04/23/2015 9:02:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Five cast members of the upcoming Ferguson stage play abruptly quit this week after reading the play’s script, which recreates the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson using testimony taken from the grand jury proceedings in the case.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the cast members quit the production after learning the true circumstances surrounding Brown’s death. Playwright and producer Phelim McAleer told Breitbart News that the script is based strictly on grand jury testimony, with “nothing added. No dialogue, no characters.”

“He claims that he wrote this to try to get to the truth of it, but everybody’s truth is totally subjective,” former cast member Veralyn Jones told the Times. “When you come to the matter of what really happened, nobody really knows for sure, because everybody has a different take on it. … It just didn’t feel right to me.”

A self-described “very liberal, left-wing-leaning” cast member, Philip Casnoff, told the Times that when he learned about McAleer’s conservative background, he thought, “Whoa, this is not the place for me to be.”

“It felt like the purpose of the piece was to show, ‘Of course he was not indicted – here’s why,'” Casnoff added.

McAleer has repeatedly stated that his play is based on a genre of drama called “verbatim theater,” in which events depicted on stage are a recreation of exact witness testimony and interviews.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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Awww, the truth is too much for these hypersensitive cupcakes to deal with. Ferguson is everywhere

OOPS! Wrong Ferguson, though the Royal Family is another Royal PAIN.
1 posted on 04/23/2015 9:02:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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Nice er, freckles.


2 posted on 04/23/2015 9:05:36 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Interesting. She is Lithuanian. The left eye is a recessive trait. Just something I notice when I try not to look.


3 posted on 04/23/2015 9:10:33 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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“He claims that he wrote this to try to get to the truth of it, but everybody’s truth is totally subjective,” former cast member Veralyn Jones told the Times. “When you come to the matter of what really happened, nobody really knows for sure, because everybody has a different take on it. … It just didn’t feel right to me.”

IOW, this racist "former cast member" doesn't like the facts, so he/she simply defactualizes them in order to live in the prescribed worldview.

4 posted on 04/23/2015 9:10:44 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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the Royal Family is another Royal PAIN.

I rather like Liz and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge seem like a very nice couple, but I pretty much agree with you about the rest of them.

5 posted on 04/23/2015 9:11:49 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Leftist bigotry and intolerance on display here.


6 posted on 04/23/2015 9:20:39 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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everybody’s truth is totally subjective

Fake But Accurate.

7 posted on 04/23/2015 9:23:44 PM PDT by samtheman ( BushClinton. The Yesterday Candidate.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Actors are, by definition, paid to lie to their audience.

The better they lie and make their audience believe the lie, the better they are said to be doing their job and are lavished with money, praise and awards.

Telling the truth is harder to do and cant be done by everyone.


8 posted on 04/23/2015 9:26:20 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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but everybody’s truth is totally subjective,

bilge water

9 posted on 04/23/2015 9:27:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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"...but everybody’s truth is totally subjective,”

In other words, it's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.

10 posted on 04/23/2015 9:30:13 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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reminded me of this from mark steyn. Talking to them is like playing tennis with the net-down, where they say your ace is a social construct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEGJb5W5ks


11 posted on 04/23/2015 9:34:35 PM PDT by 4rcane
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These people are truly certifiable.

Proof that if you want to anger a conservative tell them a lie, if you want to anger a liberal tell them the truth.


12 posted on 04/23/2015 9:39:45 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them." GK Chesterton)
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To: Impala64ssa

Truth, or the collectivist narrative. Choose one.


13 posted on 04/23/2015 9:40:44 PM PDT by lurk
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Actors are, by definition, paid to lie to their audience.
Well, they say Wash DC is Hollywood for ugly people.
14 posted on 04/23/2015 9:45:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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15 posted on 04/23/2015 9:55:55 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Speaker 1. I am what I am.

Speaker 2. No, you fool. You are what we perceive you to be.


16 posted on 04/23/2015 9:58:10 PM PDT by JimSEA
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“when he learned about McAleer’s conservative background, he thought, “Whoa, this is not the place for me to be.” “

Not if he wants continued employment in today’s “entertainment” Industry, it isn’t...

Being involved in telling THE TRUTH about Ferguson is likely a sure way to get to the top of Hollywood’s Blacklist.


17 posted on 04/23/2015 10:06:04 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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The truth s so...er, uncomfortable to these progress leftists.

Actually, the word intolerable is better.

They simply cannot tolerate the truth. Causes their whole leftist, PC, made up world of emotion and innuendo to come unhinged.

Progressive leftists truly have a mental disorder.


18 posted on 04/23/2015 10:07:48 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Bon mots

19 posted on 04/23/2015 10:11:54 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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Phillip Casnoff: Oh yeah, he was that "Southern" villain in that potboiler, North and South. The one that couldn't quite handle a South Carolina accent, and vanished into the mists of 'd' level celebrity.

However, I'm sure Ol' Phil' snuggled in the warmth of his Socialist political fantasies.

20 posted on 04/23/2015 10:27:09 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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