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This is a story about the insanity of forced "diversity". Or whatever newspeak you'd prefer.
by nvahalik 4y ago
This is a story about the insanity of forced "diversity". Or whatever newspeak you'd prefer.
- soco 4y agoPlease read the article first, not only the title. The above comment is completely correct. Whether their approach is acceptable though, that's another story of course.
- oh_sigh 4y agoLiterally no diversity was forced. Not even sure where you got that idea, except if you only read the title.
- linksnapzz 4y agoIf they had auditioned women, the play could've gone on. If, of course, nobody objected to none of those women being cast.
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- oh_sigh 4y agoOr if they read the policies of the venue and adhered to them, the play could go on. Saying "you can't do X at this venue" is not the same as saying "you must do X".
- yucky 4y ago...but the university is doing exactly that - forcing diversity for diversity sake. The play was written to be all male and they refused them the venue as a result of no women being called to audition for a role that isn't for women.
- oh_sigh 4y agoThere's thousands of years of history of women playing men in plays, and men playing women.
- yucky 4y agoThat's nice, but irrelevant. Forcing an artist to represent art in a way it isn't intended, is absurd. What is the argument for it?
- oh_sigh 4y agoIs there any venue in the world which has no rules in place for the users of the venue?
- yucky 4y agoCan you provide other examples like this? If not, then you have your answer.
- linksnapzz 4y agoThey should've had in the casting call, a role for a woman in a sandwich-board sign, on it printed directions to the theater's fire exits. She stands at stage left for the entire performance, and has no lines, requiring no additions or subtractions to Beckett's work.
- linksnapzz 4y agoHow do you propose the producers adhere to both the restrictions of the rightsholders, and of the venue?
- oh_sigh 4y agoHold an audition allowing all people to try out, and if a woman does get cast because she is best for the role, read the prepared statement before the play indicating the rights holders don't like it.
- linksnapzz 4y ago…and get sued by the Beckett estate; because that’s an out only if you’re in one jurisdiction in France. I suppose if the University was willing to accept liability, that’d be different.
- oh_sigh 4y agoIn Netherlands it was already decided by a judge: > Famously, in 1988, Beckett brought legal action against a Dutch theatre company, which wanted to stage a production of Waiting for Godot, with women acting all the roles. His lawyer argued that the integrity of the text was violated because actresses were substituted for the male actors asked for in the text. The judge in the Haarlem court ruled that the integrity of the play had not been violated, because the performance showed fidelity to the dialogue and the stage directions of the play https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86803/#:~:text=Famously%2C%20in%201988%2C%20Beckett%20brought,asked%20for%20in%20the%20text https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86803/#:~:text=Famously%2C%20in%2....
- linksnapzz 4y agoNice, but insofar as Dutch law lacks stare decisis, it's not stopping the Estate from suing someone else and at least getting to trial...
- kwhitefoot 4y agoIt would have been a non-problem if copyright died with the author.