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'Julius Caesar' production with Trump lookalike disrupted by protester
ABC 7 New York ^

Posted on 03/15/2023 7:43:04 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan -- The Trump-like character assassinated in a New York production of Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" had a dramatic new scene this weekend: A 24-year-old woman stormed the stage, yelling, "Do you want Trump to be assassinated?"

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Delta and Bank of America both pulled their sponsorship of the Public Theater, which is known for its edgy, modern productions.

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Beware the ides of March, indeed.

Prudent move by the companies who pulled sponsorship.

1 posted on 03/15/2023 7:43:04 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe
You do realize this took place back in 2017, right?

That protestor was Laura Loomer, BTW.

Behind the Scenes with the Right-Wing Activist Who Crashed “Julius Caesar”

2 posted on 03/15/2023 7:51:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Tench_Coxe

That’s nothing. Let me tell you about the time my Trump production with a protestor lookalike was disrupted by Julius Caesar. Yeah.


3 posted on 03/15/2023 7:53:02 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
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To: Tench_Coxe
the Public Theater, which is known for its edgy, modern productions.

There is absolutely nothing "edgy" about a play that advocates the assassination of Donald Trump (or George Bush, Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher for that matter). Its incredibly boring and banal. A sign that the play writer has nothing original to say.

4 posted on 03/15/2023 7:56:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Yeah I do. Sometimes we need to be reminded who these people (the Left) are.


5 posted on 03/15/2023 7:59:08 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

Okay, you didn’t mention that fact, so I wasn’t sure if you did o didn’t know that. 🙂


6 posted on 03/15/2023 8:00:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Tench_Coxe

While it’s difficult to apply morality to events two thousand years ago, Julius Ceasar is the hero of that play, and his assassination historically is viewed as both a tragedy and a mistake by the conspirators, who were wiped out and ushered in the empire.

But why should liberals think anything out when they can stick knives in a look a like for fun.

I’ve come to the conclusion that liberals are bad people, not just a bad ideology. They are thugs and they know it.


7 posted on 03/15/2023 8:03:13 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Tench_Coxe

what’s the policy of the ‘Public Theater’ on this sort of thing? - it seems to vary from person to person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFEK0Sbq4o8&t=24s


8 posted on 03/15/2023 8:40:40 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Tench_Coxe
Another flashback to remember

Note: It opens in mute mode, so it requires one to activate the volume.

9 posted on 03/15/2023 10:22:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Tench_Coxe
You left out this part from your excerpt:
By: VERENA DOBNIK
Saturday, June 17, 2017
10 posted on 03/15/2023 10:24:12 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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A 24-year-old woman stormed the stage, yelling, "Do you want Trump to be assassinated?"

Does she really not know the answer to that question?

11 posted on 03/15/2023 10:37:23 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Interesting to read about the assassination of Julius Caesar. The supposed motivation was to restore the freedoms of the Roman Republic. A group of senators believed that Julius Caesar had too much power, and wanted to become a king. There were plotters who also hated him for various humiliating acts and statements. So they got rid of him, but the people of Rome were not all that happy with the results. Marc Antony was Caesar’s protege and thought he might inherit the name and wealth, but it went instead to Octavian, who then (after a civil war that had several stages and lasted over a decade) became Augustus Caesar, the first of many Roman emperors.

So the plot backfired and led to almost exactly the end result that it was supposed to prevent. And Rome enjoyed its most prosperous and glorious times anyway.


12 posted on 03/15/2023 10:57:22 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (We will never be safe until every last balloon is shot down, oops not that one, oh well)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Was it performed on an Aldis Lamp?


13 posted on 03/15/2023 11:00:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

14 posted on 03/15/2023 11:01:38 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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