The Bard’s plays, she says, are “tedious” and “inaccessible.” Perhaps, with such a dim view of the source material and its creator, she should have taken a different job, but instead she chose to make Shakespeare more “relevant.” For instance, [in A Midsummer Night’s Dream] “Away, you Ethiope,” was changed to, “Get away from me, you ugly bitch.” Rice knew that plenty of Shakespeare purists would find her coarse edits appalling, so she had an actor walk on stage in a spacesuit and say, “Why this obsession with text?” She also placed identity politics front and centre. She mandated, for instance, that 50 percent of the cast be female regardless of the gender of the characters. “It’s the next step for feminism,” she said, “and it’s the next stage for society to smash down the last pillars that are against us.”Unsurprisingly after her first season the board responsible for keeping Shakespeare recognisably Shakespeare sacked her and the 'progressive' press have exploded with their classic, divisive, fall-back position of class consciousness (some might even call it the 'snobbery of the banal') and attacked the decision by calling it........'snobbery':
"It’s hard to shake the idea of what the Globe regulars want: period finery not Adidas tracksuits; Received Pronunciation not London street slang; theatre’s Eve Best not EastEnders’ Maddy Hill. Shared light or no shared light, it’s straight-up snobbery."[M Trueman, The Telegraph]I would suggest that Mr Trueman is living in his Hollywood namesakes make-believe world if he believes that the only way to advance 'culture' is to destroy all the best of the past cultural norms.
That route leads only to the same sort of world that ISIS envisages.
Grow up Matt and make a valiant attempt to look beyond the 'progressive' bubble that is cultural Marxism, and you might even learn something from the past. If not I fear you are going to repeat it.
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