| re: I doubt summertheater would agree with your first choice |
| Posted by: Thom915 02:27 pm EST 12/31/17 |
| In reply to: re: I doubt summertheater would agree with your first choice - ryhog 01:01 pm EST 12/31/17 |
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| I was raised (using the word as you did) by Christian Brothers though our chaplain was a Jesuit priest. Oddly enough, he was the most dogmatic and the least likely to advise us to look for challenges. In the age of civil rights, Vietnam and changing sexual mores we found ourselves, challenges found us anyway. Fortunately the Brothers (and Jesuits and others I met subsequently) had prepared us for them. Summertheater has accomplished one thing with the criticism leveled. I am now interested in this play whereas I had no interest at all previously. The criticism calls the play vile and racist implying that it is also sacrilegious. The criticism seems to go so over board as compared to other people's reactions that I am intrigued as to what in the play set this off. O'Hara must be quite gratified that he hit at least one playgoer's nerve since he has said, in an interview in the NY Times that he wants the experience to be like a speeding train in which you really cannot get out of the way. In summertheater's case he has apparently succeeded. |
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