Did my part to the donor email address:
Substituting a caricature of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, for Julius Caesar so that your actors can administer a bloody slaughter by stabbings on stage may be satisfying to a segment of your supporters. I hope not, but it is difficult to understand the depths to which the partisan can plummet.
You should be aware that this disgraceful exercise has mobilized a groundswell of opposition to the use which public space & public & private monies are being utilized. There will be a blow back against not only this production but against NEA and PBS since they are already associated in American minds with tasteless and offensive productions such as Mapplethorpe.
The lack of judgement and of fiduciary responsibility shown by your organization in this matter is truly staggering and should give pause to both your corporate sponsors and individual donors.
Well said.
As I recall, the “art” known as “Piss Christ” (the “artist’s name for his “art”) ,was subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Yes, these people have the right to produce patently offensive “art” or “theater productions”, and we all have the right to criticize, and ask that our tax money not subsidize such filth.
Freedom of expression and all that, goes both ways. The liberals act as if it they can have their cake and eat it too.
I cannot wait until President Trump’s team obliterates the National Endowment for the Arts.
PBS for that matter. Good riddance. Liberal scum.