Posted on 01/13/2015 5:24:24 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) is contributing to the production of a new adaptation of “Our Town,” set in a town where “gender and sexual identity are fluid.”
The Foundry Theatre, Inc., a theater company in New York City, received $10,000 to reimagine the quintessential American play about love and marriage in a fictional New Hampshire town set in 1938. The Foundry Theater’s new version, which will go by another title, takes place in the present in a queer community.
“Playwright Casey Llewellyn will use [Thorton] Wilder’s text and strive to maintain his aestheic [sic] and social relevance while she considers cultural and social issues within contemporary society,” a description of the NEA grant states. “The play will explore questions of love, marriage, and loss within the context of a town where the inhabitants’ gender and sexual identity are fluid.”
Melanie Joseph, the founder and the artistic leader of the Foundry Theater, told the Washington Free Beacon that federal funding has gone to support a huge cast, workshops, and to develop the script. The play is set to open later this fall.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Good grief, remember a time when these homosexuals and their supporters used to say what they did on their bedroom was their private business and they just want to be left alone?
Ever since bozo the clown and his ilk have taken power all I hear is this homosexual crap, no pun intended either.
The Queer Left: rewriting history once again so our children will think its normal to be gay. Expect many of our founding fathers to have a “gay secret past” on the History Channel soon. The homofascists won’t stop as long as they have a homo prex clearing the path...
I don’t know about wanting to live somewhere like a “queer community”, but I bet the decorations around town are just fabulous.
Child rape will be unusually high there
In an age of trillion dollar deficits, why the F do we still have an NEA?!?!? Shut it down NOW.
I want a refund.
Ew, FABULOUS! Ewwwwwwwww!!!!
Can’t wait to see who plays the Thtage Manager.
How did they obtain the rights to Wilder’s work? Or did they just steal them?
Good question.
Oh, that’s nothing. I was talking to a theater director this weekend who plans to do the opera “Carmen” in which Carmen will be a man. Where’s actor’s equity when you need them?
DEFUND/DISMANTLE N.E.A.
A generation ago, the NEA were paying strippers to go out on stage and pour chocolate over themselves. I think about the only hiccup they felt they had was when one performer started throwing feces and blood at his audience. They still thought that *that* was “artistic”, but because nobody wanted to get feces and blood thrown on them, they “performed” before an empty theater.
The taxpayer money the NEA spends would likely be better spent giving the public free tours of “artistic” substandard abattoirs and city dumps.
“Our Town: Key West”
Well, if Annie can be played by a no-talent black girl, why not?
Speaking of which, Selma was recently released. Why wasn't Martin Luther King played by a white actor?
Should have listened to Jesse Helms 30 years ago and Shut ‘Er Down.
Why wasn’t he played by a GAY white actor?
It's apparent the vile Left feels they must destroy and corrupt everything. Sickening.
“Queer community”
Yet, if we round them up and segregate them, that would be wrong.
Sheesh.
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