tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post115098244718241516..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Corrie Off-B'way!Playgoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1151331345744714232006-06-26T10:15:00.000-04:002006-06-26T10:15:00.000-04:00Re: the nonprofits passing...Veteran reporter Patr...Re: the nonprofits passing...<BR/><BR/>Veteran reporter Patrick Pacheco had a good point this weekend on NY1. Subsciption-season theatres plan way in advance and it's very possible most had already booked their slate of plays by the time Rickman came pitching last month. (In fact premliminary schedules were likely already being set back in March, at the time of the Corrie bruhaha itself.)<BR/><BR/>Now, for sure, if the Public, say, REALLY wanted to do it, they'd find a way. Schedules change. But if nothing else, it certainly would have provided these theatre with a convenient excuse to pass.Playgoerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1151276757612569272006-06-25T19:05:00.000-04:002006-06-25T19:05:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, Playgoer, I don't think that MNiRC ...Unfortunately, Playgoer, I don't think that MNiRC is representative of the kinds of plays commercial houses are generally interested in. It's more likely that the nonprofits passed on it, BUT that Alan Rickman is friends with one of the producers (I've forgotten which one) and was able to use that connection to get the theater. I doubt that a commercial theater, just coming across the script, would have been interested in MNiRC, frankly, even though it is the least political of the amazingly large body of work on Corrie's life and the events in Gaza.<BR/><BR/>And are all of you in New York going to go as a group? Maybe the Playgoer crew could get a discount.PeonInChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611581585285022906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1151000573834717612006-06-22T14:22:00.000-04:002006-06-22T14:22:00.000-04:00I liked the comment about Rachel Corrie being pluc...I liked the comment about Rachel Corrie being plucky; like picture Corrie washing her hair in the Gaza Strip--except ah whoops the Israelis cut the water supply whenever they want to--singing, "I'm gonna wash The Man right out of my hair," the Man being, the IDF. <BR/><BR/>Of course, the NY Times had to do its usual job of faux objectivity in its indulging the NYTW. And even though the NYTW was "diplomatic"--did they really have any choice? I can't help but see the imprint of "genius slighted" in their comment. "Oh, we're so glad, because Dena Hammerstein produced one of OUR productions in London." Puulleeezzz, the American public is very forgiving. It's like Clinton. If he had just said, "I made a mistake and had oral sex in the Oval Office," people would have understood. If the NYTW would have just said, "we may have made a mistake and we're glad to see the production come to NY city," END OF COMMENT, they would get kudos. But no, no, no. We have to hear a version of "I did not have relations with that woman." We've got to hear them put a plug in for themselves. <BR/><BR/>I actually find them entertaining. Every step they make is like material for a standup comic. <BR/><BR/>But I am more than anything happy for New York, because I do think the fiasco tainted the city's image. And I don't think everyone would have forgotten it as easily as other things that have come and gone, simply because New York represents itself as "progressive" and "cosmopolitan," and I don't think being anti-Palestinian makes you cosmopolitan anymore--at least not in the world, which is the ultimate market of New York today.freespeechloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925986545953519952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1150985843874144052006-06-22T10:17:00.000-04:002006-06-22T10:17:00.000-04:00From the NYT:Ms. Pariseau said. "Our hope is that ...From the NYT:<BR/><BR/>Ms. Pariseau said. "Our hope is that people will form an opinion based on that [the play itself], as opposed to all the other stuff surrounding it."<BR/><BR/>That sounds to me like a good indication of where the producers will be going with "contextualization": happily, nowhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1150983071002699032006-06-22T09:31:00.000-04:002006-06-22T09:31:00.000-04:00Great. I can't wait to see the pullquote from this...Great. I can't wait to see the pullquote from this in the ads:<BR/><BR/>"Rachel Corrie is ... plucky!"<BR/>Garrett Eisler, <I>The Playgoer</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com