Posted on 06/12/2017 4:01:53 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Sponsors of a Manhattan-based theater company’s portrayal of Julius Caesar are pulling funding for the production after the company chose to present Caesar as a Trump look-alike who gets stabbed to death during the play.
Both Delta Air Lines and Bank of America announced they would be pulling their sponsorship of the production at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater on Sunday, Fox News reports.
“No matter what your political stance may be, the graphic staging of Julius Caesar at this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ values,” the airline company said in a statement. “Their artistic and creative direction crossed the line on the standards of good taste.”
Bank of America also voiced its disapproval and claimed it never would have sponsored it in the first place if it knew what the theater company planned to do.
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There are PLENTY of sponsors still....NYT being one of them!
Delta and Bank of America pulled their sponsorships.
There was a production with an Obama lookalike as Julius Caesar in 2012. There was even one with a woman resembling Hilary. I really don`t understand the outrage.
I recommend reading https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/the-misplaced-outrage-over-a-trumpian-julius-caesar/530037/ for more on the history of the play.
Your question is actually the solution to the problem: We need a Conservative group to have the same play, substituting Obama for Trump, make lots of noise then watch the reaction.
Before that occurred, I cancelled my card. I was on the phone June 7.
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