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In reply to the discussion: Pro-Trump protester storms stage at Julius Caesar performance [View all]janx
(24,128 posts)56. It's ignorance, unfortunately. n/t
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+Infinity. But also go after Socialists and Communists (like me) too. - nt
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#75
Aren't these snowflakes the ones always screaming about "freedom of speech"...?
regnaD kciN
Jun 2017
#3
And wouldn't those people you know that waited be pissed if they had this crap go down
lunasun
Jun 2017
#6
A couple of years ago. I was at a small theater watching a modernized version of
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2017
#43
and what the hell do they think we have had to listen to from right wing media since the Bush years
luvMIdog
Jun 2017
#7
I don't think I'll be listening to anyone on the right feign outrage over political violence.
Solly Mack
Jun 2017
#12
OK everyone needs to chill and give her a break. She protested when it was Obama.
DRoseDARs
Jun 2017
#17
A play that depicts the assassination of a current president has to expect pushback.
Chemisse
Jun 2017
#21
You know there was a production of this where JC looked like Obama, also a Bush ....
bettyellen
Jun 2017
#55
Well it's a common way to get new audiences to relate to Shakespeare - I saw Hamlet on Bway set in..
bettyellen
Jun 2017
#69
Did you ever read Nicholson Baker's short novella "Checkpoint"? I'd be curious
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#78
I am equally uncomfortable that they depicted an Obama character a few years ago, in the same role.
Chemisse
Jun 2017
#27
The play depicts the murder of a would-be dictator. Who the senators THINK is a dictator.
Demit
Jun 2017
#62
A group of "honorable" men (to quote Marc Antony's seminal funerary oration) - nt
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#79
Back then,, it carried some real political consequences and not just from garden-variety
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#80
burn books, scared of theater like Julius Caesar, ban games, afraid of fiction movies, hate songs
Sunlei
Jun 2017
#24
no exposure to theater, concerts, the classics..really a shame. they don't know what they've missed
Sunlei
Jun 2017
#64
The stage jumper Jack Posobie says he's a movie director, he should know & understand the play.
Sunlei
Jun 2017
#68
I'm totally going to see that play. Pack those seats! Plus the play, as written, is awesome so
Squinch
Jun 2017
#33
Laura Loomer and Jack Posobiec 'own' the "Citizens for Trump" group. If anyone else disrupted a play
Sunlei
Jun 2017
#41
Do these people even know who Shakespeare was and when he wrote the play?
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2017
#42