Based on their blurb, I think "Sanctuary City" will present immigrants as human beings whose lives have merit. Is that a one sided proposition? Once we have seen it, we'll have a better sense of its politics, but for now we only know that it intends to explore the humanity of immigrants.
More troubling than your advance judgement, you offer a poor metric from which to evaluate a play. First you demand that a play have no political or humanitarian point of view, then you declare that any play which does (or threatens to) express a point of view as being radical left. You waste no opportunity to decry censorship, and yet you're asking that playwrights and theaters censor themselves in order to conform to your political ou're social point of view.
Of course, leftist politics in the theater i's nothing new. The theater has a long history of using the stage as a place to appeal on behalf of those who society rejects or abuses, and NYTW has always been a left-of-center theater - but not oneas radicalas though imagine. You may disagree with their politics, but you may not invent an agenda for them based on nothing but your own suspicions and sensitivities. |
