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A NOTE ABOUT JULIUS CAESAR AT THE DELACORTE
self ^ | 6/12/17 | Delacourt

Posted on 06/12/2017 4:23:53 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight

A NOTE ABOUT JULIUS CAESAR AT THE DELACORTE

The Public Theater stands completely behind our production of Julius Caesar. We understand and respect the right of our sponsors and supporters to allocate their funding in line with their own values. We recognize that our interpretation of the play has provoked heated discussion; audiences, sponsors and supporters have expressed varying viewpoints and opinions.

Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy. Our production of Julius Caesar in no way advocates violence towards anyone. Shakespeare's play, and our production, make the opposite point: those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save. For over 400 years, Shakespeare’s play has told this story and we are proud to be telling it again in Central Park.


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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Fringe lunatic liberals like this are mentally Ill. This is a contageous disease afflicting most Democrats.


21 posted on 06/12/2017 4:51:36 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Our production of Julius Caesar in no way advocates violence towards anyone.

By that logic, just because I produce a drawing showing the theatre company with their heads on spikes no way advocates violence towards anyone.

22 posted on 06/12/2017 4:51:51 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: chajin

cute pun.

Like the Macbeth suggestion. Guess I’ll have to read the Emperor. Thanks for lifting my vision today.


23 posted on 06/12/2017 4:52:02 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Purdue77

The funny thing is that by the time the historical event occurred, the “democracy” they are alluding to had long been subverted by the privileged classes of Rome. Caesar sparked the 1st Roman Civil War when he brought an army across the Rubicon to “explain” his disagreement at being denied the opportunity to stand for consular election, his murder sparked the second civil war between the factions, and the third was a war between the victors of the second.

Ultimately, there can be only one (Caesar).

Consequently, the production is closer to our actual situation that the play’s producers imagine. It is a play about a class of obsolete politicians plotting and murdering controversial and erratic but equally privileged “man of the people.”

My only question is where are the establishment politicians in the portrayals of the conspirators? Which contemporary politician is Marc Antony, which Brutus, which Cassius?

Unfortunately, there are no roles for female conspirators because there are two or three top Democratic women that would be perfect for the role.


24 posted on 06/12/2017 4:52:56 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

I note that in the still photo I saw 100% (all three) of the assailants were black.

How is this not racist?


25 posted on 06/12/2017 4:53:03 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Imagine the ‘discussion’ they could generate with Big Mo Hamid.


26 posted on 06/12/2017 4:58:35 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Shakespeare's play, and our production, make the opposite point: those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save. For over 400 years, Shakespeare’s play has told this story and we are proud to be telling it again in Central Park.

They think the Roman Republic was a democracy? Mon Dieu!

27 posted on 06/12/2017 5:01:06 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

I’m an ardent Trump supporter. I see no problem with this. Leaders and politicians have been the subject of plays for time immemorial. Even viciously parodied and lampooned.

I’ve been comparing Trump to Caesar since Trump crossed the Rubicon coming down that escalator. It seems fitting that Trump would portrayed as Julius Caesar in a Shakespeare in the park play.


28 posted on 06/12/2017 5:01:07 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: Fhios
I think that an actor should portray 0blabya in The Oxbow Incident, as one of the ones providing all the neck...
29 posted on 06/12/2017 5:20:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

... in no way advocates violence against anyone? Ah so tonight will feature a beheading of Pres Obama? I’d hope and think not.


30 posted on 06/12/2017 6:19:13 PM PDT by Persevero (Love you guys)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Fools! Take note they didn’t use a Fidel Castro as Caesar.


31 posted on 06/12/2017 6:28:06 PM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: ClearCase_guy

#10. Correction: “If it weren’t for NO STANDARDS, they’d have no standards at all”.

Do not attribute “standards” to these leftist “artists”. Attribute “hate” and “stupidity” and “government handouts” to them.


32 posted on 06/12/2017 6:43:55 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ProudFossil
My reply to them. If your production does not advocate violence to the president, then subsitute Obama for Trump.

They could do a rotation. Have a black understudy for Obama. If they want they can occasionally throw in a Nixon, LBJ or Calvin Coolidge for all I care. I'm willing to not suggest JFK because that may hit a raw nerve.
33 posted on 06/12/2017 7:16:51 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Fhios

Good point. In fact Trump IS being assassinated as we read. Only to stage the event would have The President dying by a thousand cuts; still red blood on his white shirt, only inflicted by hordes of Lillyputians.


34 posted on 06/12/2017 7:34:27 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Our production of Julius Caesar in no way advocates violence towards anyone

Our explicit call for the assassination of the President of the United States should be taken in the lighthearted manner it is offered.

35 posted on 06/12/2017 7:37:27 PM PDT by TChad
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To: heights

I really don’t think you meant “assignation”....Could you possibly have meant ‘assassination”?


36 posted on 06/12/2017 7:50:22 PM PDT by Postman (The Flies have finished defining BHO and HRC and will be moving on)
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To: heights

and no, I would let those media F’s anywhere near my house and that is a very good question.


37 posted on 06/12/2017 7:52:11 PM PDT by Postman (The Flies have finished defining BHO and HRC and will be moving on)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

The problem is that the only people who are stupid enough to believe it was put on in this fashion for any reason other than to promote the idea of assassinating the President, are the people who didn’t have a problem with it in the first place.

It’s directed by the same guy who did Hamilton, where as we all know the V.P. was treated with outrageous, premeditated disrespect.

Time to shut down all these political types masquerading as art types.


38 posted on 06/12/2017 8:08:06 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
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Shouldda done it with a tall, skinny, clean, articulate black playing Julius Caesar and a Cankles lookalike as Brutus.

39 posted on 06/12/2017 8:44:50 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Looks like Obama got a little taste of Shakespeare a few years back--in San Francisco, no less.

"Yes, this is a cheap ripped off, chintzy version of Shakespeare, written to reflect our modern times and our modern circumstances, mainly that of Obama being President and having Hillary as his secretary. Think that’s gonna last? Ha! Just see what happens in this new retelling of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays- Othello. There is even some of the original dialog left in. Plagiarism? So? Is he gonna come around and stop me? I don’t think so!"

Obama’s Othello “Obamothello” Debuts in Lib Stronghold

40 posted on 06/12/2017 9:27:23 PM PDT by henbane
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