Hi everybody, I'll get an article up soon. I literally had nothing at the moment. Plus, it was a busy weekend. I turned 47. Yay! I'm not dead. I saw a play. Booo! They cast a woman as Hamlet and lacked mastery over the pronouns. Got a big old blue ice drink from Dutch Brothers spilled in my lap... and all over my car (not as refreshing as it sounds). Got hailed on at a BBQ (ouch). And largely avoided the news. So this make take some time to find something to write.
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Happy Birthday and welcome to Club 47! May your days ahead be filled with more blue drink in your mouth than on the lap and auto.
Thank EP! It was quite a surprise when this thing dropped into my lap. Funny, but messy.
I remember 47......it was like, a long time ago....
Happy Birthday, Andrew!
Happy birthday! Skipping the news is always the most relaxing option.
Wait, it was your birthday and you didn't bring cake??? What kind of world are we living in now????
I am confused {{{no one dare comment...}}} Was the play called "Boo!" based on "Hamlet" or did you see "Hamlet"? Oh, and yeah, the gender-bending trend is payback for generations of...oh, who cares. If she wasn't very good, then it doesn't matter what the gender of the actor/actress/actron/acting professional is.
Oh, by the way, you haven't really missed anything. Same old stuff.
Happy late birthday, Andrew! Hope it went well, the drink, hail, and crappy Hamlet parts aside. And as the others have said it's the same old same old in the news so getting away from it all was definitely the better option.
- Daniel
Thanks everyone!
Bev, The problem was twofold. First, they a couple random gender changes and didn't rethink the pronouns. They just switched them to "she." But that created a lot of confusion when they did things like talk about two women and just use "she".
The bigger issue is that this woman choose to play Hamlet like Cathy McCarthy might -- random frenetic action, yuck yuck jokes, over the top almost-vaudeville emotions, and no grasp of what the character is saying. She knew the words, but not the meanings.
Happy Birthday.
GypsyTyger
Andrew - My biggest issue with doing Shakespeare in the US is that the actors just don't know what they are saying! I learned that early doing Shakespeare festivals. I love conceptualizing his plays. Many can fit into any era (with the right concept), but actors have to understand what they are saying otherwise it's just saying words.
Also, if can find it online somewhere, watch "Upstart Crow". It's a new BBC "Renaissance" comedy with Will Shakespeare as the main character. It's his everyday life with all of the usual people known in his life and it is hysterical! And if you know anything about his plays and history, it is even better.
Also, Cathy Young, a woman who immigrated from the USSR in the late-70s, talks about Handmaid's Tale in "Delusions of Gilead". She points out how absurd the premise of the book is and the Left's deranged obsession with its "relevance".
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I should also point out that Cathy Young is an atheist and a libertarian.
It is absurd especially when the fashion trend is making the hijab fashionable. However I find it funny that most of the women protestinf in Handmaid Tale garb most likely had to make them themselves, at least they are learning to sew? Thank God, my grandmother taught me how to sew since I earned a fairly good living from doing just that. At least they may be learning a useful, marketable skill beyond SJW-ing.
Excellent article, Kit. I always did find the whole concept of the book to be disturbing in a paranoid fever swamp kind of way. I'm glad Cathy Young took it on; I may not always agree with her but her work is always thoughtful and thorough!
- Daniel
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