Thursday, April 23, 2015

Narrative, 0, Truth, 1

Directors may be a lot tending left, but think about the nature of their craft.  They deal in authenticity.  They have to come across as believable.  Actors really ought to have to find that level of honesty as well.

 Alas, that is far from what commonly takes place, and so the director of a Los Angeles play about last summer's Ferguson, Missouri embarrassment is going to need to put together a new cast:

According to the Los Angeles Times, the cast members quit the production after learning the true circumstances surrounding Brown’s death. Playwright and producer Phelim McAleer told Breitbart News that the script is based strictly on grand jury testimony, with “nothing added. No dialogue, no characters.”
“He claims that he wrote this to try to get to the truth of it, but everybody’s truth is totally subjective,” former cast member Veralyn Jones told the Times. “When you come to the matter of what really happened, nobody really knows for sure, because everybody has a different take on it. … It just didn’t feel right to me.”
A self-described “very liberal, left-wing-leaning” cast member, Philip Casnoff, told the Times that when he learned about McAleer’s conservative background, he thought, “Whoa, this is not the place for me to be.”
“It felt like the purpose of the piece was to show, ‘Of course he was not indicted – here’s why,'” Casnoff added.
McAleer has repeatedly stated that his play is based on a genre of drama called “verbatim theater,” in which events depicted on stage are a recreation of exact witness testimony and interviews.
“The truth is the truth. If it doesn’t fit in with their beliefs, they need to change their beliefs,” McAleer told the Times. “All the people who testified that he had his hands up, it was pretty much demolished in grand jury testimony.”
McAleer reportedly rejected cast members’ suggestions to “balance out” the play with information sympathetic to Brown, leading to their decision to quit. However one actress, Donzaleigh Abernathy, said she would wait to meet McAleer Thursday night before making a decision on whether to continue with the production.
“I want to hear what he has to say face to face,” Abernathy told the Times. “I actually want to know, on a moral level, how can you do something like this that you know will divide America? Does it make you feel good?

It's pointless  to tell the Freedom-Haters to just knock it off.  The prospect of total power hinges on the perpetuation of these complete falsehoods.

Leftists are evil.  There's nothing hyperbolic, self, indulgent, snarky or juvenile about that statement.

It's the obvious truth.

I got a kick of that actress's question as to whether the director want to "divide America."  That's a done deal, toots.  That ship has done sailed.  And you be like on the opposite side from those of us who cherish freedom, truth, human dignity, common sense and Western civilization.

You decided to join the enemy in this war for America's soul.

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