Maggie_T
09-14-2006, 04:50 PM
Well, well. Our "cousins" have no problem with making films in which Bush gets killed. But touch their vaudeville royalty and hear them roar. :evilgrin:
Mind you, I want to make it very clear that I find this play revolting and disrespectful to a dead person. But I just wanted to show how they react when they shoe is on the other foot.
Disgust at play showing Princess Diana in bed with Down's Syndrome men
Last updated at 13:51pm on 14th September 2006
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Disgust at play showing Princess Diana with two Down's Syndrome men while the Queen was portrayed by a circus dwarf.
"Good job that I hadn’t eaten beforehand because otherwise I would have thrown up," wrote one theatre critic after watching the opening night of the play at the Volksbuehne Theatre.
The bizarre drama, which is due to come to London next month, premiered on Wednesday night and dozens of people walked out on it within minutes of the curtain going up.
Entitled Kaprow City – no-one quite knows why – German society girl Jenny Elvers played Diana on a stage that only one third of the audience could see. The other two thirds watched the action on TV monitors in black and white.
Christoph Schlingensief, the director, laid on an avant-garde production that had no plot and made little sense.
Those who stayed for the full two hours, culminating in Diana being wrapped in plastic when she died, gave it only desultory applause.
Schlingensief plans to bring it to the London Frieze Art Fair next month under the name "The Last Hour of Lady Diana."
A film version will be released next August to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Diana's death. "I have very interesting information that she really died in London, not in Paris, and reconstruct this new truth," Schlingensief said before the curtain went up.
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I posted a comment. I said "Well, well. I see that Brits have no problem with making films in which our President Bush is assassinated. But when the joke is on them, oh-my-God, how feathers get ruffled."
Mind you, I want to make it very clear that I find this play revolting and disrespectful to a dead person. But I just wanted to show how they react when they shoe is on the other foot.
Disgust at play showing Princess Diana in bed with Down's Syndrome men
Last updated at 13:51pm on 14th September 2006
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/i/commentIconSm.gif Reader comments (8) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405140&in_page_id=1770#StartComments)
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/09/kaprowcity140906_228x242.jpg Diana play: Theatregoers walked out of play that shows Queen played by dwarf
Disgust at play showing Princess Diana with two Down's Syndrome men while the Queen was portrayed by a circus dwarf.
"Good job that I hadn’t eaten beforehand because otherwise I would have thrown up," wrote one theatre critic after watching the opening night of the play at the Volksbuehne Theatre.
The bizarre drama, which is due to come to London next month, premiered on Wednesday night and dozens of people walked out on it within minutes of the curtain going up.
Entitled Kaprow City – no-one quite knows why – German society girl Jenny Elvers played Diana on a stage that only one third of the audience could see. The other two thirds watched the action on TV monitors in black and white.
Christoph Schlingensief, the director, laid on an avant-garde production that had no plot and made little sense.
Those who stayed for the full two hours, culminating in Diana being wrapped in plastic when she died, gave it only desultory applause.
Schlingensief plans to bring it to the London Frieze Art Fair next month under the name "The Last Hour of Lady Diana."
A film version will be released next August to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Diana's death. "I have very interesting information that she really died in London, not in Paris, and reconstruct this new truth," Schlingensief said before the curtain went up.
Link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405140&in_page_id=1770)
I posted a comment. I said "Well, well. I see that Brits have no problem with making films in which our President Bush is assassinated. But when the joke is on them, oh-my-God, how feathers get ruffled."