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re: Half Jewish???

Posted by:	enoch10 12:45 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to:	re: Half Jewish??? - LegitOnce 10:59 pm EDT 08/05/14

if this has actually happened what a mind-boggling bad idea. well, i can't actually say that because i haven't seen it or the way it's been handled. if it was part of the incarnation i saw i missed it and i can't imagine that one slipping by. any way it's done it alters the piece thematically - regardless of how you approach it. it's always tricky talking about a change you haven't seen but if this is in fact now part of the musical and if makes it to nyc and there's a talk back - that's one talk back i'd be willing to attend. i'd love to know the rationale. >> There's nothing in the original play that says she's not Jewish or Rom or anything else in particular. sorry but when you're dealing with a writer born in 1921 writing in german about a german location and about, among other themes, collective guilt the "he never said she wasn't" argument comes off as too cavalier. if he had wanted her to be jewish/gypsy he'd have made her german/gypsy. it skews the piece. also, it changes her interaction with the pastor assuming that's still there. how have they introduced this ... addition?

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