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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 20, 2017 6:57:50 GMT
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 20, 2017 10:47:03 GMT
Already seen one comment on twitter about white-washing modern day Sicily! Thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 11:18:54 GMT
The only tweet I can find on the subject of whitewashing Sicily, it made me laugh:
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Post by lynette on Oct 20, 2017 11:39:19 GMT
Visited Sicily recently. Loved it. Met only friendly helpful people and great food. They have only just finished repairing the damage of WWII in Palermo. Wonder where the money allocated went? Notices in the streets on shop windows saying they refuse to pay the protection and memorials to martyrs who faced up to the mafia in recent as well as older times.
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 20, 2017 11:49:13 GMT
The only tweet I can find on the subject of whitewashing Sicily, it made me laugh: Haha yes that's quite funny!! This is the tweet that got retweeted onto my timeline: |
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Post by londonland on Oct 20, 2017 12:01:01 GMT
From Whatsonstage:
"The play will be set in a luxury spa hotel in Messina, run by Leonato and his no-nonsense customer experience manager Beatrice. Don Pedro, the mafia overlord and his entourage arrive to party, hidden in the Sicilian hills. The show will use Shakespeare's original language.
Dormandy commented: "A contemporary Sicilian setting offers the perfect social context for the play: an inflexibly patriarchal world, where daughters still marry as their fathers decree; a world brittle with honour and the law of vendetta; a south-Mediterranean world where a wedding is a major community event, and a shrine is still a place where magical things might just happen. "
This looks more The Comedy of (Mainly Stereotypical) Errors. So many levels of wrong in those two paragraphs, I've stopped counting!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Oct 20, 2017 12:06:06 GMT
The director taught Drama at Eton for fifteen years.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 20, 2017 12:10:46 GMT
Would Claudia Winkleman have been a safer choice?
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Post by Jan on Oct 20, 2017 12:27:03 GMT
Visited Sicily recently. Loved it. Met only friendly helpful people and great food. They have only just finished repairing the damage of WWII in Palermo. Wonder where the money allocated went? Notices in the streets on shop windows saying they refuse to pay the protection and memorials to martyrs who faced up to the mafia in recent as well as older times. I visited Sicily on business quite often, spent months there overall, a very historically interesting place amongst other attractions. But there is no doubt odd things go on there, some business people I met had a tendency to be in jail the next time. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 21, 2017 7:04:08 GMT
Already seen one comment on twitter about white-washing modern day Sicily! Thoughts? What are they talking about, Italians are white |
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Post by Jan on Oct 21, 2017 7:19:24 GMT
Already seen one comment on twitter about white-washing modern day Sicily! Thoughts? What are they talking about, Italians are white I was talking to a guy from Milan once and I mentioned Sicily and he said “Sicily ? That’s Africa”. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 21, 2017 7:42:22 GMT
What are they talking about, Italians are white I was talking to a guy from Milan once and I mentioned Sicily and he said “Sicily ? That’s Africa”. Well, I am a guy from Milan and when we say that we tend to mean that their economy is not the most advanced and that their way of thinking might not be the most progressive. It's not a racial thing. I mean it's probably racist, but not racial. |
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Post by profquatermass on Oct 22, 2017 17:50:55 GMT
The director taught Drama at Eton for fifteen years. I remember him at the RSC - he was Richmond in the Plantagenets I think and Clarence in SRB's Richard III |
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 22, 2017 18:22:41 GMT
The director taught Drama at Eton for fifteen years. I remember him at the RSC - he was Richmond in the Plantagenets I think and Clarence in SRB's Richard III I recall him from that 1988 season |
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Post by profquatermass on Oct 22, 2017 19:08:57 GMT
I remember him at the RSC - he was Richmond in the Plantagenets I think and Clarence in SRB's Richard III I recall him from that 1988 season SRB, Anton Lesser and Ralph Fiennes and Jason Watkins were in the company that year. I think I saw most things for a couple of years |
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Post by Jan on Oct 23, 2017 0:59:19 GMT
They should cast Sue Perkins as Benedick.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 6:36:09 GMT
I would pay SO MUCH money to see that, I honestly would.
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Post by Jan on Oct 23, 2017 6:45:09 GMT
I would pay SO MUCH money to see that, I honestly would. You, and the entire population of Kingston. |
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