Interesting report on the other board. (Personally I find this one so much better.) I actually saw it, and thought SJP made brilliant choices that placed the material in an updated frame. She stood Act II’s original power dynamic on its head.
I know some folks advocate bowlderization to cope with dated virtue signals. But I believe students can read Huckelberry Finn just fine with appropriate contextualization, and think that sort of framing is infinitely preferable.
I sense that’s SJP’s whole point here. Breaking the original to be PC would miss it entirely. |
