Musical 'Aida' cancelled at Bristol University amid race row over 'cultural appropriation'

UK Telegraph ^ | October 4, 2016 | Sam Dean and Tom Morgan

[C19fan]

It is a story of war between two nations, the conflict of love rivals and the looming fate of death.

But the antagonistic themes of Aida seem to have spilled into the wings after a student production of the musical Aida was cancelled amid a row over suggestions of “cultural appropriation”.

A theatre at the University of Bristol said yesterday it had cancelled all showings after a revolt by students.

[C19fan]

Small taste of what life of must of been like under Communist regimes. This quote is a riot:

One student commented: “White washing still exists, it’s been done enough in Hollywood, look at Liz Taylor in Cleopatra.”

Dumbass student Cleopatra was Greek so yes Liz Taylor playing her is more accurate than some Arab or Black actress.

[Red Badger]

Idiots, morons and imbeciles...................

[Oberon]

If all the non-whites were serious about cultural appropriation, they would stop using electricity and driving cars.

[Red Badger]

Oh, I left out IGNORAMUSES.................

[SkyDancer]

And white bands can no longer play music written by blacks or white singers sing songs written by blacks. Just to be fair you know.

[ClearCase_guy]

Civilization is under siege.

The folks who can do little more than beat jungle drums are jealous of all that Western Civilization has achieved. We have Verdi, the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel. They have mud huts.

[Paladin2]

Turn in their gunz too.

[Red Badger]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoramus

Did You Know?

Ignoramus is the title of a farce by George Ruggle (1575-1622) that was first produced in 1615. The title character, whose name in Latin literally means “we do not know,” is a lawyer who fancies himself to be quite shrewd but is actually foolish and ignorant. Ruggle may have been inspired in his choice of name for his character by a proceeding in the English judicial system. The term ignoramus was written on bills of indictment when the evidence presented seemed insufficient to justify prosecution. In these cases ignoramus indicated “we take no notice of (i.e., we do not recognize) this indictment.” Such a reference would have been most appropriate for Ruggle’s satire of the judiciary.

[P-Marlowe]

I guess no one in England will ever get the chance to see Orson Wells play Othello. I’m sure that movie has been banned.

[goodnesswins]

Let’s all go back to cave man days....too much cultural appropriation going on otherwise. (These people are crazee...must be too much inbreeding going on)

[Nifster]

Precisely the commie brain washing in the universities is pathetic

[PAR35]

We need to be sympathetic to this charge, and quit listening to and watching black entertainers. (Except Charlie Pride - he appropriated ‘White’ music, so we can still listen to him.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIRTQ_k-Sg

[jjotto]

So the opera standard ‘Aida’, set in Egypt, is politically incorrect. Bring out the fainting couches for Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘The Mikado’!

[mrs. a]

Idiots! The opera is basically an indictment of slavery. Did they not even trouble to read a synopsis?

Whitewashing indeed - where was the fuss about cultural appropriation when Kathleen Battle played Zerlina in Marriage of Figaro?

I’m catching a breeze from all the knees jerking nowadays.

[Da Coyote]

What part of kick their asses out does the administration not understand?

Oh, forgot, the only group dumber than the lib arts types is the administration.

Wanna guess the majors of the admin goons?

[wastoute]

Actually, this is a good thing. Libtards should confine themselves to nothing but readings of Maya Angelou. Nothing else. Sort of like feeding Raid to cockroaches.

[Fiji Hill]

Dumbass student! Cleopatra was Greek, so yes Liz Taylor playing her is more accurate than some Arab or Black actress.

One would think that a university student would know that.

Incidentally, during the 275 years in which they ruled Egypt, the Ptolemaic kings and queens spoke Macedonian Greek. Except for Cleopatra, none of them even bothered to learn Egyptian, the language spoken by their subjects.

[Varda]

Yep and the character Othello isn’t a sub-Sharan African. He’s a Berber and Berbers are Caucasian.

[Olog-hai]

This is actually the play based on the Verdi opera, with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice. So these students whining about “cultural appropriation” are of course raving homophobes.

[xp38]

The early Elvis and Beatles would have been in trouble no doubt.