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Jun. 1st, 2014 07:18 pmAll right, so, yes, AFTER SOME PEER PRESSURE FROM THE AUDIENCE AROUND HERE, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
obopolsk and I did ... in fact ... just get back from seeing Ethel Sings. (nextian: it was in the same place we saw 'Philosophy for Gangsters.' For the record. I'm sure you're shocked.)
( And Ethel did, on occasion, sing! )
I mean, OK. The thing is. THE THING IS. I could often see what the playwright was getting towards. It was very well meant! I can understand why she wanted to connect the Rosenberg trial with incarceration-related injustices ongoing today! It would have been nice if it was more coherent, and I really do not think Goddess Muse Lorraine Hansberry was necessary for this, and admittedly for actual success I think it would probably have been necessary to cut out any and all references to Chicago. And also decide whether Ethel Rosenberg was a passionate martyr who died for her convictions, or an innocent housewife who didn't care about Communism and never did anything wrong to begin with, because, like ... that decision ... was not made ...
...but an attempt was made? An attempt was made. And I've just found out that ten percent of the ticket proceeds go to benefit The Rosenberg Fund for Children, and now I feel like a heel, sorymenhild, evewithanapple, since you offered charitable donations to get me to the show, I direct your attention there.
obopolsk and I did ... in fact ... just get back from seeing Ethel Sings. (nextian: it was in the same place we saw 'Philosophy for Gangsters.' For the record. I'm sure you're shocked.) ( And Ethel did, on occasion, sing! )
I mean, OK. The thing is. THE THING IS. I could often see what the playwright was getting towards. It was very well meant! I can understand why she wanted to connect the Rosenberg trial with incarceration-related injustices ongoing today! It would have been nice if it was more coherent, and I really do not think Goddess Muse Lorraine Hansberry was necessary for this, and admittedly for actual success I think it would probably have been necessary to cut out any and all references to Chicago. And also decide whether Ethel Rosenberg was a passionate martyr who died for her convictions, or an innocent housewife who didn't care about Communism and never did anything wrong to begin with, because, like ... that decision ... was not made ...
...but an attempt was made? An attempt was made. And I've just found out that ten percent of the ticket proceeds go to benefit The Rosenberg Fund for Children, and now I feel like a heel, so
rymenhild, evewithanapple, since you offered charitable donations to get me to the show, I direct your attention there.
