tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post4757658714013516438..comments2024-03-29T03:39:42.411-04:00Comments on The Wicked Stage: Tuesday on the LinksRob Weinert-Kendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-79490235542975721662011-10-06T13:58:38.197-04:002011-10-06T13:58:38.197-04:00Thanks for understanding, "Anonymous."Thanks for understanding, "Anonymous."Rob Weinert-Kendthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-35909670445221166542011-10-06T13:37:46.685-04:002011-10-06T13:37:46.685-04:00Sorry, thought you were just drinking the kool-aid...Sorry, thought you were just drinking the kool-aid, didn't know you were selling it too! Don't wanna ruin anybody's gig!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-58188164880818749732011-10-05T13:36:20.712-04:002011-10-05T13:36:20.712-04:00From American Theatre:
Paulus and Parks are facin...From <a href="http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/julyaugust11/paulus.cfm" rel="nofollow">American Theatre</a>:<br /><br />Paulus and Parks are facing <i>Porgy</i>'s thorny problem of racial stereotyping head-on. Parks talks about the script's flirtations with minstrelsy as a "shortcoming of understanding." As she puts it, "I see what the writers were doing. This was born of love for black people. We're not going to indict them, we're just going to keep working on it." Paulus, who taught a course on <i>Porgy and Bess</i> last semester at Harvard with the renowned cultural historian Marjorie Garber, adds unapologetically, "So we've gone in and just changed some things that are just not acceptable anymore."<br /><br />What I see here, and in the New Yorker quote, is acknowledgement that there are legitimate concerns about <i>Porgy</i>'s treatment of race, coupled with the unambiguous conviction that there was zero racist intent on the part of the show's creators. I don't see how that becomes an "insinuation" that the work is <i>fundamentally</i> racist. They couldn't be clearer that they've heard that critique and don't think it's the case.Rob Weinert-Kendthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-30616160989207584822011-10-05T13:19:59.168-04:002011-10-05T13:19:59.168-04:00Good to know that old trick still fools some folks...Good to know that old trick still fools some folks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-25080312231350787002011-10-04T16:29:38.777-04:002011-10-04T16:29:38.777-04:00So disavowing that position is how she insinuated ...So disavowing that position is how she insinuated it?Rob Weinert-Kendthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8829734.post-29008031822009963102011-10-04T16:16:38.173-04:002011-10-04T16:16:38.173-04:00Parks on "Porgy and Bess" in the New Yor...Parks on "Porgy and Bess" in the New Yorker:<br /><br />"One could see their depiction of African-American culture as racist, or one could see it as I see it: as a problem of dramaturgy."<br /><br />Garvey says they "insinuate" the opera is racist.<br /><br />That looks like an insinuation to me all right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com