Posted on 03/02/2003 12:21:48 PM PST by reasonseeker
Theatres Making Antiwar Statements
By Leonard Jacobs
On March 2, over 110 New York theatre groups and venues will make a pro-peace statement, from program inserts and curtain speeches to performance events and street actions.
Spearheading the action is THAW, short for Theaters Against War. Formed by New York-based actors, playwrights, and directors, THAW isn't just concerned about war overseas, but "escalating attacks on civil liberties here at home." According to Hillary Keegin, an Equity actor and spokesperson, artists "don't have to look outside our own community to do something... we have space, audiences, and concerned individuals."
The participating theatres in the event, called THAW Out for Peace, include: Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Manhattan Class Company, the Pearl Theatre Company, and Primary Stages. According to Keegin, how the companies make a statement is up to them; what's important is "the theatre community makes a pro-peace statement together."
(Excerpt) Read more at backstage.com ...
I get the distinct feeling that they are just nostalgic for the days of the McCarthy Blacklist that they're romanticized out of all proportion and are desperate to claim that they, too, are martyrs, as long as they don't actually have to pay any price for it. If they want to know what real oppression is, let them go to Baghdad and try calling the president another Hitler. At least they'd find out what it feels like to be correct about a political issue for once, just before they're shot.
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