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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by:	enoch10 03:33 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - AlanScott 11:23 pm EDT 08/15/14

if so, i find it less disturbing than the decision to make her jewish and gypsy. is anyone familiar enough with the valency to know if this can be justified from that translation? i was willing to wade back through it just to see but i can't find it. i probably got rid of it after the bowles came out.

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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by:	BruceinIthaca 01:03 am EDT 08/18/14
In reply to:	re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - enoch10 03:33 pm EDT 08/16/14

I think the point was the townspeople viewed her as Jewish and a gypsy, both of which they would have looked down upon (indeed, this echoes the Holocaust, of course)--I don't the play itself was disparaging her. For all we know, she was poor, came from the wrong part of town, and was full of life--and they added on these identities as categorical markers of the "outsider," the abject they did not want to integrate into their "culture."

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