An Interview with Theatre Director and Playwright Robert Cooperman

Liberty Island Magazine ^ | January 15th, 2021 | Tamara Wilhite

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Tamara Wilhite: What led you to create Stage Right?

Robert Cooperman: I became a little tired of seeing characters with conservative points of view depicted as bumpkins and ignorant slobs (you know, the “clingers” that our former president referred to).

What’s more, I saw a very obvious worldview in the arts that was leftist in nature and omnipresent in many plays. ...

I’ve read play after play where the characters are miserable, crazy, or both, and we the audience are supposed to find something appealing about them and sympathize. I’m looking for a theatre universe where we have real heroes (not anti-heroes) and a true sense of hope and redemption–not merely a surrender to societal/cultural forces that render us–as that terrible musical calls it–“next to normal.”

That’s why I started Stage Right Theatrics: to present a voice that has been silenced by the left’s hegemonic control over the arts.

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An Interview with Theatre Director and Playwright Robert Cooperman
https://libertyislandmag.com/2021/01/15/an-interview-with-theatre-director-and-playwright-robert-cooperman/