Re: "Nigger" causes RAGTIME cancellation!

robert armstrong wrote:
> vincente scritta, con brio ma troppo:
> 
>>> Not to the point of whether people outside deserve 
>>> to be exposed to this who did not consent to overhear 
>>> it. For comparison, let's say a consenting adult 
>>> audience were watching (artistically justified) full-frontal 
>>> ****ity in a park, and the image were visible to 
>>> other people walking the perimeter of the park 
>>> area. 
> 
>> You sound like the bunch who would *****...
> 
> Alliteration: Considering the source, I'm impressed.
> 
>> ...how you could see an X rated film at the drive 
>> in from their window. 
> 
> I'm saying those people have rights.

They do, yes - so the question is why nobody at the parks department 
appears to have read the script until such a late point in the process. 
If Mr. Grisamore is concerned about park users outside the open-air 
theatre being exposed to unpleasant language, he should take a more 
active role in choosing shows that are to be performed there before 
rehearsals begin, rather than taking the lazy way out, not reading 
scripts in advance, then shutting down a production that's nearly up and 
running when he realises there's a problem. His concerns are valid, but 
his handling of the situation, based on the accounts I've read, has been 
absolutely incompetent.

-- 

Stephen

Managing Without Opera. It's the third week of the experiment. How are
Hannah and Gavin coping? Why is their sitting-room pale green? Why can't
they laugh without showing their gums? What's on the other side?