Playing politically correct. Protesters disrupted his play by shouting down the actors...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 7-28-2005 | Valerie Richardson

[hophead]

Has this type of thing gone too far? You bet your life. If this was the other way around there would ave been arrests.

[vaudine]

What was the play about? not that it matters, since the hecklers felt free to intimidate and ruin a play for people who paid money to see it. Whatevevr, it must have had an anti-PC theme

The fact that the hecklers were sponsored by faculty is a new low.

vaudine

[popdonnelly]

These students should be free to put on a play. Whatever happened to freedom of expression? This is like life in a totalitarian society. It is inexcusable. If I had a son or daughter at Washington State, I would pull them out.

[mylife]

Yeesh!

This kind of thing cant be done by whites!
Trey Parker and Matt Stone only pull it off because they filter it through Animation.

[hophead]

"What was the play about?"

Mr. Lee's play, a satirical takeoff on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," had no shortage of critics. The play was loaded with ethnic stereotypes, racial epithets and jokes aimed at Christians, Jews and Mormons, and was advertised as potentially "offensive or inflammatory to all audiences."
Mr. French described the play's outrageous, irreverent humor as along the lines of television shows like "South Park" and "Chappelle's Show." The point was to create a show so widely offensive that no one in particular could be offended, Mr. Lee said.
"I took shots at everyone so that everyone can say: 'Hey, we all have something that other people can make fun of,'?" Mr. Lee said. "But then people were saying, 'You made fun of my group more than you made fun of these other groups.'?"

[jimboster]

Here's the president's email address:

rawlins@wsu.edu

[Darkwolf377]

I have a feeling that after that description, some FReepers aren't going to be so angry and will start defending the hecklers. But the hecklers are wrong.

[hophead]

"This kind of thing cant be done by whites! "

The writer and producer of this play is a black guy. I have to hand it to him to stand up to this bull sh1t.

[mylife]

Oh really? welp there I go being predjudiced L0L
I assumed that since there was a black backlash he must be white.
Ya learn something everyday.

[durasell]

And now it's...
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!

[SlowBoat407]

He was trying to offend, and he succeeded. He should be thrilled. Bertolt Brecht once said that a play could be considered successful if it started a riot.

If he wants to play in the big leagues, he'd better be ready for the fast balls.

By the way, I say this as a writer myself, fully prepared for abuse should any one of my works incite anger. Would we have heard of him at all if this hadn't happened?

[Fledermaus]

Maybe the play should have had "a montage...gotta have a montage".

[hophead]

"...some FReepers aren't going to be so angry and will start defending the hecklers."

Why would ANY true conservative/libertarian not want to defend this guys right to put this play on without interference?
When was the last time you have seen someone from the right throw a pie at a speaker or try to shout down a leftist speaker? I personally would just not attend or if I did and found the subject not to my liking, I walk out and then write a letter or two.

[spanalot]

Let them write their own play

[The Brush]

What would have happened if the audience felt threatened and beat the protesters to a pulp?

[The Brush]

I have a feeling that after that description, some FReepers aren't going to be so angry and will start defending the hecklers. But the hecklers are wrong.

If I had paid money to see a play and I didn't like it, I would walk out.
I would also have read something about the play prior to putting down money to see it
Storming the stage is not free speech, it's mob action and charges should have been filed. I don't care if it's a Michael Moore speaking engagement.

[Echo Talon]

I have a feeling that after that description, some FReepers aren't going to be so angry and will start defending the hecklers. But the hecklers are wrong.

It's wrong to heckle no matter who is or what is on stage.

[satchmodog9]

Put a transcript of this play on this site and you will see the townspeople come out with their pitchforks. Most people on FR are so blinded by Gibson's movie that they missed the quote he gave that said he had a lot of the same political beliefs as Michael Moore. I wish I could find that quote somewhere. I heard it during some awards show.

[Shermy]

"Mr. Lee's play, a satirical takeoff on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," had no shortage of critics. The play was loaded with ethnic stereotypes, racial epithets and jokes aimed at Christians, Jews and Mormons, and was advertised as potentially "offensive or inflammatory to all audiences."

[Darkwolf377]

When was the last time you have seen someone from the right throw a pie at a speaker or try to shout down a leftist speaker?

I seem to remember people supporting the tearing down of that awful "soldier" scarecrow some libs put up on their private property.

I never made the claim that someone from the right has thrown a pie at anyone, but merely speculating here, I have a feeling some leftists have been shouted down by some conservatives at some time or other. Neither one matters to me because all I said is that some people might agree with the heckling of something they perceive as mocking their religion.