PUBLIC THEATER’S SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK PRODUCTION OF ‘JULIUS CAESAR’ WON’T RETRACT CALL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ASSASSINATION
The Public Theater is refusing to back down after backlash over its production of “Julius Caesar” that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie who gets knifed to death onstage. Delta Air Lines and Bank of America have pulled their sponsorship of the Public’s version of the play, but in a statement Monday the theater said it stands behind the production. It noted its staging has “provoked heated discussion” but “such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy.”
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
June 13, 2017
THE PUBLIC THEATER’S NEW FREE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK PRODUCTION OF “JULIUS CAESAR,” WHICH HAS STIRRED CONTROVERSY WITH ITS DEPICTION OF A TRUMP-LIKE CAESAR, OPENED MONDAY NIGHT TO A SUPPORTIVE CROWD WHO GAVE THE SHOW A STANDING OVATION AFTER THE PRODUCTION BECAME THE FOCUS OF RIGHT-LEANING CRITICISM AND FUNDING WITHDRAWALS.
EDITOR’S NOTE: When liberals want to call for someone’s death or execution without overtly saying the words, like all cowards, they hide behind something to do it. In this case, they are hiding behind the oh-so-thin veil of ‘performance art’. Kathy Griffin held up a ketchup-laden rubber Trump mask, but the ISIS message that sent was clear to everyone who saw it. Using ‘Julius Caesar’ to engage in the Liberal fantasy of seeing someone kill our president is equally clear as well. This is not art, it’s cowardly Liberal incitement to violence.
The Public Theater is refusing to back down after backlash over its production of “Julius Caesar” that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie who gets knifed to death onstage.
Delta Air Lines and Bank of America have pulled their sponsorship of the Public’s version of the play, but in a statement Monday the theater said it stands behind the production. It noted its staging has “provoked heated discussion” but “such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theater; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy.”
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