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@@karakol86 "traditional values" they should probably keep that out as well as "traditional values" often include such swell things as women not being fit for equal pay, equal job opportunities, rights, etc. Same for minorities. There thoughts on anyone who isn't straight. The list for "traditional values" goes on and on.
@@ymir6286 I agree. I on my say traditional values since they are part of the ideology. From the video, white American cons, were addressing platitudes and in-the-news topics. No substance
@C caymer When you say nobody can afford to live in urban areas do you realize you're equating four fifths of the US population to nobody? It turns out quite a lot of people can live in cities, because with time wages catch up to cost of living. At least they used to. Before Republicans went off the deep end and fucked the economy to hell and back by cutting taxes for the wealthy and increasing spending in their last two administrations.
@C caymer Houses cost 150k in Columbus because the median income is piss poor, not because of zoning laws. Good job trying to repeat a talking point you heard on AM radio though.
@@archstanton3430 Plays tend to be left-leaning because playwrights tend to be left-leaning. All artists do. And you can't write anything of substance without imprinting a point of view into it, it's not a deliberate plan or anything. Artists go into the arts because they value artistic experiences and building community with their audiences more than they value a capitalistic idea of success. Conservatives are conservatives partially because they value a capitalistic idea of success. Therefore, conservatives rarely become artists (though they often secretly wish they were, and harbor secret resentments about it, which is kind of what's going on here.)
You judged an entire festival based on snippets from a biased reporter. This bias is exactly why you need to be brave enough to actually see what the SIX short plays were actually all about. Do you really believe that the reporting from a clearly left biased show was accurate and unslanted? Ex. "only 15 people in the audience opening night". True BECAUSE there was a snow weather advisory that evening. This is the midwest. We can get a foot of snow in the time it takes to see a show. Before you judge a whole festival on sound bites try seeing it next year. The motto is "Disagreement does not equal hate." Try it sometime.
@@mimi9d163 sure, it's all the reporter making it look bad. Right. There are plenty of good plays that reflect traditional values (or cis gender nuclear family, as they said in the video). This isn't it. This is amateur political porn for snowflake right-wingers.
I'm not. I'm judging Indiana, Idaho, Arizona, and Texas based on this. All places I will never live again. Exception: When I lived in North Beach, Florida. That shit was _next level_ wierd
@@dovahbear0 Unfortunately some do care. If it was as simple as live and let live nobody would be fighting for the ability to get married and be open about it without fear of getting fired/hurt/etc over it
The only thing worse than theater is political theater Honestly this seems less like a actual theater and more like the equivalent of screaming into a pillow for these conservative actors. I can imagine it being pretty awkward being a conservative in a heavily liberal career.
Even us liberal theater people aren't nearly this on the nose with our messages, for the most part. While there is a lot inferred in many plays and many plays may have socio-political themes and subjects, there is at least effort to add some decent minimum of nuance, or if not nuance at least make them interesting or entertaining.
Yeah, and they just don't get it. Apparently no one told them this was ordinary TV programming all the way up until the 80's You would think none of them had ever seen Happy Days
"You should also have one through a cis-gender nuclear family lens." Also "Something like Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", that 'ain't no rightwing play".
@@katinagehn584 uh....theres Rent, Hairspray, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and so many other cult classics who have LGBTQ characters and actual performers on stage. You must not know about theater much.
When asked what a liberal play was I was expecting to hear actual titles of plays, authors and possibly learn something about theater but instead his reply was a vague description of nothing along with nothing and something about white American males like himself not being represented on stage as the strong and noble hero's that they most undoubtedly are.
Liberal plays: Avenue Q Priscilla Queen of the Desert RENT Kinky Boots Death Trap Sylvia Love Letters Elizabeth Rex Cabaret ... those are just the ones that I could rattle off the top of my head. I know Robert knows all of those titles as well. However comments get edited and answers to questions are cut and snipped to serve the purpose of the editor
@@mimi9d163 Hi. Thank You! That was really nice of you and though (I am sad to say) I have never seen any of these shows I have heard of about half of them mentioned before and I'm sure I would find many of them enjoyable too. I was for real expecting that man to rattle off a list of plays much like you have done so well here and probably I would recognize a few and say, oh yeah, I remember reading or learning about some of these before and yes, they dealt with somewhat liberal themes. I was shocked and very unimpressed that the silly man could not name anything like this at all. I get the feeling now that he must detest these plays and others like them SO MUCH that it must have been too painful for him to think about any of these titles or to form them into actual words. Plus many of these are still well known Broadway productions and that might not sit well with him either because people actually still pay money to see them today. Theater is and has always been a very liberal endeavour through and though and I can't understand what on earth these people are doing or who other than maybe their moms and dads do they expect to come and watch any of this stuff. lol. Good Grief! : )
@@shultsy100 There's also plays like: The Pillowman- A dark comedy that deals with themes of abuse, mental illness, child murder, freedom of thought, unintended consequences of our words and actions, and totalitarian authority. The Bottle Tree- Probably my favorite small play, deals with a young woman from her high school days through to her thirties, who struggles to come to terms with her dead brother being a school shooter. The Luck of the Irish- A story about a black family ghost buying a house in a white neighborhood in the 50's with the help of an Irish couple. Anything written by Lin Manuel Miranda (i.e. In The Heights and Hamilton)- While they are a bit overplayed and hyped up in the theatre scene, they are genuinely entertaining musicals with a lot of heart and detail thrown in to make them very memorable to watch.
Vice News forgot to report that there was an official snow emergency on opening night. The never even asked about attendance the following two performances. So, Yes, if scheduling a festival in January in central Ohio is wrong, then that would be a valid point.
@mike york- I agree with Mimi. Why didn't Vice mention the weather advisory as a possible contributing factor for the low attendance? Mimi has a valid point.
Oh God. That community theatre style, I know it well. "I'm going to YELL at you EXACTLY what I'm THINKING as LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE because that is ACTING!!!" Do what you want dudes, but good luck selling tickets. The theatre-going audience is as left as the theatre community. Right wingers think of it as artsy-fartsy nonsense, they don't show up. Whatever. It's community theatre. They'll sell tickets to the actors' friends and family, and no one else, and have fun doing it, so it's fine I guess.
Please know this does not represent the theatre scene in Columbus. It is truly a wonderful thing. This is... Just... I apologize for it I don't know what else to say.
Honestly, this video is why I'm glad we don't have censorship. Seeing these horrible written, staged, and acted plays performed for an audience of 15 people in a 200-seat house could have only happened through the marketplace of ideas, and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Liberals know literally nothing about how conservatives think. Conservatives, on the other hand, used to be liberals before they grew up. So they have a better idea.
@@Gobbersmack I know many Liberals/Progressives who were once Conservatives and they've validated what most of us instinctively knew ...Conservatives are _exactly_ as they appear to be, there's no deeper truth below the surface. Horrifying.
As an actor in Columbus I can tell you this guy is full of it. he does not welcome debate on his topics he is a laughing stock in the theater community he makes it sound like "Liberal Actors and Companies" are out to get him but the fact is despite his political alignment his company is awful, the actors are awful, the scripts are awful. I mean it would be one thing if he put on a controversial and good show but he doesn't he puts on crap for a crap audience.
Imagine turning rapacious greed - sociopathy - psychopathy - religious dementia - racism - xenophobia - hate - irrational fear and paranoia - low IQ - gullibility - and being a gun nut with a death fetish into a play. That tries to show those traits in a positive way. And . . . good luck.
I think putting such clumsy political content in your plays is just horrible writing. I'm sure there are a ton of left leaning plays that also do this... But Im sorry this looked just awful. Even if I was culturally conservative I doubt want to watch these kinda plays... If you want to make plays from a different perspective, great! But actually put some effort into telling a good story instead of just pushing a message.
Art should never be politics. I realize it can be but I do not believe in supporting any “art” theatre with a political backing. The whole point of theatre and film is to examine ideas and the world around us. It should make us question things, not answer the question for us. As a great acting teacher of mine told me and I’m paraphrasing, “If you’ve already or once you’ve answered the question of the play it is no longer thought provoking art, but rather political theatre.” These are not truly artistic creations. They are stories with no interpretation possible. They have an agenda and mimic propaganda such “The Birth of a Nation” or “The Triumph of Will” or “The Green Berets”. It’s a shame that so many are turning to the arts to continue telling people how to act and what to think. The theatre should be a place where you can thoughtfully think for yourself about what is presented. Be careful what so called art you consume. This isn’t about political views and whose are right-it’s about preserving the integrity of the arts.
This sounds like some old guy wanted to get his views points off without having to say it himself Im going to make a play talking about why kobe is better than Jordan and lebron
the laramie project is an incredible play. doesn’t hate on whites but does a good job of painting how bigotry killed the young boy how a political play should be done.
I don't need theater to be conservative, but as a politically moderate theater actor, I'd rather not be a mouthpiece for far-left propaganda. He's not wrong about that part.
I work in theatre as a professional. This show is a master class in how to put on a high school student work. Start the show with characters screaming at fever pitch with no where to go. Non motivated blocking with actor's stopping, robotically turning their torso to "cheat out". Utter the phrase "So will have the same...uh...LIGHTS, WHATEVER THEY ARE...for when we... for when PEOPLE are bringing furniture out." He doesn't know what god damn LIGHT means! I have never seen such self sabotaging country bumpkin BS in my life. I actually feel better about being poor, right now.
That theatre group was WAAYYY too ambitious when it came to choosing their venue for their shows. If anything, they should've gone for a smaller black box setup. Fewer seats in house overall, but it's better suited for smaller audiences, is a lot cheaper and can be more intimate with the viewers.
Sigh... Conservatism is such a losing game, man. If anything, Conservativism is just a PC term for Tribalism. Whether it's a Protestant in North America, Muslim in the Middle East, or a Buddhist in East Asia -- it is just multiple sides of the same "coin". They're afraid of their culture dying yet they seem to forget because of pop culture and education that legacies live on: i.e. The Old West, Latin language, Persian Empire, even dead religions. Besides, pop culture businesses in the west (where it's affordable to make theatre, films, music, etc) caters to more inclusive/diverse demographics because that's where the money is. Asia and Africa make up well over half of the 7 billion+ people in the world. And that, fellow Americans, means money (AKA the country's life source).
This is not theater. This is sh*t. Performed by horrible "actors" who feel threatened. No wonder only 15 people showed up. And I assume they gave out hundreds of comps.
What they mean by “liberal theatre” is artists making points through their arts about social and economic injustices. Shit, I just described art. There r literally thousands of plays about cis gender nuclear families. They don’t have many social injustices but ppl in the LGBT community do so that why plays r written about them, to normalize and give empathy to those communities.
So they only put on plays that read like a Twitter feed or Chick tract and all feature a character yelling the thesis lines into another character's face. I feel better about my scripts now.
I love the music they chosen for this video. Reminds me of it's always sunny in philly but I think the nightmancometh was a VERY right wing play. Think about it.
These are people who don’t read plays. I own so many plays that are 10x better and from a straight-cis, usually white, lens. The writing is just bad like get a real writer to do this!
Isn't conservative culture inherently the loser in the culture war. Progress is like a glacier, it can slow down to the brink of stillness but it is always moving forward.
It’s not that I don’t Mind if the play has political or social elements in it, it’s that if you want a play to be provocative and express your beliefs, I feel it should maybe be more subtle and less just outright saying it. I haven’t seen this persons play so I can’t say how I would feel about them making it, but from the looks of it, it just seems like your preaching to the quire.
How bout a play where I go to the hospital for a broken leg and then I can express how happy I am working 60 hours a week between 2 jobs to pay the bills and not see my family or have any time to start learning a new trade and that's just how it is and I have to live with it, sounds like a good story.
When post people express how much they detest the left, they’re not saying they prefer conservatism. They’re saying they miss what liberalism used to stand for, especially when it came to freedom of speech.
Maybe people aren't interested in shitty plays regardless of political opinions on the actors. Really their best screen plays are get married or you will die alone... Which is absolutely stupid and makes them look the horrible people.
Ok...what are the shows that supposivly portray conservatives as "bumpkins." Many of the most well-known plays focus on traditional families (well I say that but it tends to be families with issues because theatre 🤣) There has only been an uptick in theatre with more diversity/themes surrounding LGBTQ+ and other previously controversial standpoints within the last few decades. I dont see why they're upset.
The shows in its festival include stories about how gun ownership can save lives, the emotional toll of abortion, and the breakup of an unmarried couple.
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This was as stupid as I thought it would be.
I would think a conservative group put on plays about Christianity, compassionate conservatism, and traditional values. Nope just feed the divide.
@@karakol86 "traditional values" they should probably keep that out as well as "traditional values" often include such swell things as women not being fit for equal pay, equal job opportunities, rights, etc. Same for minorities. There thoughts on anyone who isn't straight. The list for "traditional values" goes on and on.
Exactly
I watch this to see how stupid it would be. Im not disappointed.
@@ymir6286 I agree. I on my say traditional values since they are part of the ideology. From the video, white American cons, were addressing platitudes and in-the-news topics. No substance
"Break a leg"
Better not. Unless you want to go broke in our current healthcare climate.
"People on the right are a bunch of Midwestern bumpkins." After just just a few seconds of seeing your plays, you've proven that view.
Lol
They are a bunch of idiots.
@C caymer When you say nobody can afford to live in urban areas do you realize you're equating four fifths of the US population to nobody? It turns out quite a lot of people can live in cities, because with time wages catch up to cost of living.
At least they used to. Before Republicans went off the deep end and fucked the economy to hell and back by cutting taxes for the wealthy and increasing spending in their last two administrations.
@C caymer Houses cost 150k in Columbus because the median income is piss poor, not because of zoning laws.
Good job trying to repeat a talking point you heard on AM radio though.
Exactly my thought, even just his next statement made it clear he just doesn't like being told who he is!
Aren't Conservatives the one telling the "liberal snowflake's" to keep politics out of theater?
“FOR THE LAST TIME I DON’T AGREE ABOUT YOUR TAKE ON THE BALTIMORE RIOTS!!”
That alone made the video worthwhile.
Monica Joseph the pauses in between each word showed me how much he cares about his craft... 😆
Such a natural statement
Stage writer: *writes nuanced play about racism
Random right wing play right: hey that makes white men look bad
"One young lady said to me, it didn't hit you over the head." Yeah, that one about the ghost of the aborted fetus looked REAL subtle.
She was there and saw all six complete plays. Perhaps she had information you didn't.
@@mimi9d163 she does not because she is fictitious.
And they call the leftists snowflakes XD
Flyingchris2249G they both are
I only call antifa snowflakes not liberals
While I can see snowflakes in both side... I see more of them on conservatives and funny thing is... they are much less aware of it.
They created their own “safe space” 😂
For every 1 conservative "snowflake" there's 10 leftists.
Man, just write a good play and worry about if it’s liberal or conservative later
Agree!
Absolutely. There is a lot of left-wing messaging in modern theater, but this guy is over-correcting for it just a tad.
Chances are, if it comes from an empathetic place (which all good plays do), it’s a liberal play
@@archstanton3430 Plays tend to be left-leaning because playwrights tend to be left-leaning. All artists do. And you can't write anything of substance without imprinting a point of view into it, it's not a deliberate plan or anything.
Artists go into the arts because they value artistic experiences and building community with their audiences more than they value a capitalistic idea of success. Conservatives are conservatives partially because they value a capitalistic idea of success. Therefore, conservatives rarely become artists (though they often secretly wish they were, and harbor secret resentments about it, which is kind of what's going on here.)
I used to say “Conservatives can see Liberal bias in cereal boxes” as a way to mock their stupidity. It turns out I was giving them too much credit.
You judged an entire festival based on snippets from a biased reporter. This bias is exactly why you need to be brave enough to actually see what the SIX short plays were actually all about. Do you really believe that the reporting from a clearly left biased show was accurate and unslanted? Ex. "only 15 people in the audience opening night". True BECAUSE there was a snow weather advisory that evening. This is the midwest. We can get a foot of snow in the time it takes to see a show. Before you judge a whole festival on sound bites try seeing it next year. The motto is "Disagreement does not equal hate." Try it sometime.
@@mimi9d163 sure, it's all the reporter making it look bad. Right. There are plenty of good plays that reflect traditional values (or cis gender nuclear family, as they said in the video). This isn't it. This is amateur political porn for snowflake right-wingers.
Please do not judge columbus based on this video. please. ah crap.
I'm not. I'm judging Indiana, Idaho, Arizona, and Texas based on this. All places I will never live again.
Exception: When I lived in North Beach, Florida. That shit was _next level_ wierd
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Tell me about North Beach, Florida.
Small tip for the men: never start a scene angry, there’s nowhere to go from there. Also, be better at acting.
the level of acting is terrible
Matches the writing
Not surprised
Jussie Smollett can work there after jail
I thought conservatives didnt like gay stuff
We don't care, just don't shove it down our throats like that's all that matters.
@@dovahbear0 Unfortunately some do care. If it was as simple as live and let live nobody would be fighting for the ability to get married and be open about it without fear of getting fired/hurt/etc over it
@@david24745 really? With all the #metoo you're going to threaten me with an actual sexual assault? Tell how do you like your lead?
look at milo yianopolus (idek if i spelled that right lmao)
@@nolen602 love Milo!
Dear rest of the world,
Columbus is a nice city. We aren't like this.
Signed, a Columbus native.
The only thing worse than theater is political theater
Honestly this seems less like a actual theater and more like the equivalent of screaming into a pillow for these conservative actors. I can imagine it being pretty awkward being a conservative in a heavily liberal career.
Even us liberal theater people aren't nearly this on the nose with our messages, for the most part. While there is a lot inferred in many plays and many plays may have socio-political themes and subjects, there is at least effort to add some decent minimum of nuance, or if not nuance at least make them interesting or entertaining.
This was cringey
Yeah, and they just don't get it. Apparently no one told them this was ordinary TV programming all the way up until the 80's
You would think none of them had ever seen Happy Days
"I'm a middle aged white guy who doesn't like to listen and has lots of opinions. Where's the party for me??"
- Peter Griffin
"You should also have one through a cis-gender nuclear family lens."
Also
"Something like Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", that 'ain't no rightwing play".
Next they’ll be doing a rendition of Springtime for Hitler
Dizzy Giggleflix I’m not sure they would understand the irony.
But there's already so many shows through a cis-gender nuclear family lens. Do we really need more???
Gabrielle Bertrand imagine unironically using the term cisgendered. How many cats do you have?
@@trenaceandblackmetal5621 one of they actors says "cis-gender nuclear family lens" in the video
@@katinagehn584 uh....theres Rent, Hairspray, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and so many other cult classics who have LGBTQ characters and actual performers on stage.
You must not know about theater much.
Name of show that doesn't have a gay character?
When asked what a liberal play was I was expecting to hear actual titles of plays, authors and possibly learn something about theater but instead his reply was a vague description of nothing along with nothing and something about white American males like himself not being represented on stage as the strong and noble hero's that they most undoubtedly are.
Liberal plays:
Avenue Q
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
RENT
Kinky Boots
Death Trap
Sylvia
Love Letters
Elizabeth Rex
Cabaret
... those are just the ones that I could rattle off the top of my head. I know Robert knows all of those titles as well. However comments get edited and answers to questions are cut and snipped to serve the purpose of the editor
@@mimi9d163 Hi. Thank You! That was really nice of you and though (I am sad to say) I have never seen any of these shows I have heard of about half of them mentioned before and I'm sure I would find many of them enjoyable too. I was for real expecting that man to rattle off a list of plays much like you have done so well here and probably I would recognize a few and say, oh yeah, I remember reading or learning about some of these before and yes, they dealt with somewhat liberal themes. I was shocked and very unimpressed that the silly man could not name anything like this at all. I get the feeling now that he must detest these plays and others like them SO MUCH that it must have been too painful for him to think about any of these titles or to form them into actual words. Plus many of these are still well known Broadway productions and that might not sit well with him either because people actually still pay money to see them today. Theater is and has always been a very liberal endeavour through and though and I can't understand what on earth these people are doing or who other than maybe their moms and dads do they expect to come and watch any of this stuff. lol. Good Grief! : )
@@shultsy100 There's also plays like:
The Pillowman- A dark comedy that deals with themes of abuse, mental illness, child murder, freedom of thought, unintended consequences of our words and actions, and totalitarian authority.
The Bottle Tree- Probably my favorite small play, deals with a young woman from her high school days through to her thirties, who struggles to come to terms with her dead brother being a school shooter.
The Luck of the Irish- A story about a black family ghost buying a house in a white neighborhood in the 50's with the help of an Irish couple.
Anything written by Lin Manuel Miranda (i.e. In The Heights and Hamilton)- While they are a bit overplayed and hyped up in the theatre scene, they are genuinely entertaining musicals with a lot of heart and detail thrown in to make them very memorable to watch.
OMG, that Mimi Ferrai-Ninde opening her whole argument with an insult to the LGBTQ2 community was unbelievably deaf!
Perhaps you should listen to that comment again. You clearly didn't hear it correctly.
Literally seen kindergarten plays more creative than this lmfao
When there are more actors then audience members, you'll know you're doing something wrong.
Vice News forgot to report that there was an official snow emergency on opening night. The never even asked about attendance the following two performances. So, Yes, if scheduling a festival in January in central Ohio is wrong, then that would be a valid point.
@mike york- I agree with Mimi. Why didn't Vice mention the weather advisory as a possible contributing factor for the low attendance? Mimi has a valid point.
“Only 15 people were in the audience” I guess their play sucks 🤣🤣🤣
Weather/snow advisory for opening night did result in a small audience. I guess Vice News forgot about that little fact.
@@mimi9d163 We get it, you're in this theatre company. You're not doing yourself any favors replying to all these comments. Don't be such a snowflake
Oh God. That community theatre style, I know it well. "I'm going to YELL at you EXACTLY what I'm THINKING as LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE because that is ACTING!!!"
Do what you want dudes, but good luck selling tickets. The theatre-going audience is as left as the theatre community. Right wingers think of it as artsy-fartsy nonsense, they don't show up.
Whatever. It's community theatre. They'll sell tickets to the actors' friends and family, and no one else, and have fun doing it, so it's fine I guess.
Its like they’re writing arguments that they’ve been in, but this time they’re winning
Please know this does not represent the theatre scene in Columbus. It is truly a wonderful thing. This is... Just... I apologize for it I don't know what else to say.
Honestly, this video is why I'm glad we don't have censorship. Seeing these horrible written, staged, and acted plays performed for an audience of 15 people in a 200-seat house could have only happened through the marketplace of ideas, and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Liberals can do a much better job producing a play with a Conservative point of view.
I think you just said it all right there.
Liberals know literally nothing about how conservatives think. Conservatives, on the other hand, used to be liberals before they grew up. So they have a better idea.
@@Gobbersmack I know many Liberals/Progressives who were once Conservatives and they've validated what most of us instinctively knew ...Conservatives are _exactly_ as they appear to be, there's no deeper truth below the surface. Horrifying.
Stop lying.
Leftists just use their own talking points thinking that's how conservatives are.
Did Tommy Wiseau write, direct and star in every one of these plays?
This video has more views than the amount of people in the Theater 😁😂
Sorry but no offense uhhh conservative theater seems uhhh horrible and the people in them can’t act 😭😭
As an actor in Columbus I can tell you this guy is full of it. he does not welcome debate on his topics he is a laughing stock in the theater community he makes it sound like "Liberal Actors and Companies" are out to get him but the fact is despite his political alignment his company is awful, the actors are awful, the scripts are awful. I mean it would be one thing if he put on a controversial and good show but he doesn't he puts on crap for a crap audience.
Imagine turning rapacious greed - sociopathy - psychopathy - religious dementia - racism - xenophobia - hate - irrational fear and paranoia - low IQ - gullibility - and being a gun nut with a death fetish into a play. That tries to show those traits in a positive way. And . . . good luck.
Seems fitting that a conservative play begins with a bunch of shouting and anger...Don't even set the scene, just dive right into that anger.
I think putting such clumsy political content in your plays is just horrible writing. I'm sure there are a ton of left leaning plays that also do this... But Im sorry this looked just awful. Even if I was culturally conservative I doubt want to watch these kinda plays...
If you want to make plays from a different perspective, great! But actually put some effort into telling a good story instead of just pushing a message.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel. That makes me feel angry!
I counted 16 people in the cast. And 15 people attended.
Not even everyone's Mom came.
Art should never be politics. I realize it can be but I do not believe in supporting any “art” theatre with a political backing. The whole point of theatre and film is to examine ideas and the world around us. It should make us question things, not answer the question for us. As a great acting teacher of mine told me and I’m paraphrasing, “If you’ve already or once you’ve answered the question of the play it is no longer thought provoking art, but rather political theatre.” These are not truly artistic creations. They are stories with no interpretation possible. They have an agenda and mimic propaganda such “The Birth of a Nation” or “The Triumph of Will” or “The Green Berets”. It’s a shame that so many are turning to the arts to continue telling people how to act and what to think. The theatre should be a place where you can thoughtfully think for yourself about what is presented. Be careful what so called art you consume. This isn’t about political views and whose are right-it’s about preserving the integrity of the arts.
That was not Great.
This sounds like some old guy wanted to get his views points off without having to say it himself
Im going to make a play talking about why kobe is better than Jordan and lebron
Let me know when you publish your play. I'll consider it for production at my independent theatre.
Performance requires honesty.
They are completely lacking in this regard.
3:55 So basically every play ever written before 1990? and Every major Broadway hit of the last... well forever.
“You should also be able to have one through a cisgender nuclear family lense!” Oh, did you mean the most normalised thing on the planet? Sorry?
This is basically a Yahoo comments section, pretending to be art.
the laramie project is an incredible play. doesn’t hate on whites but does a good job of painting how bigotry killed the young boy
how a political play should be done.
Wow that was painful to watch! As an Ohioan I apologize!
The lady with the flower crown cant act to save her life
The first two guys are just awful on a basic technical level. The first rule of acting (before "be good at it") is "speak clearly".
I don't need theater to be conservative, but as a politically moderate theater actor, I'd rather not be a mouthpiece for far-left propaganda. He's not wrong about that part.
Break a leg? Kind of a shitty thing to say when you don't think healthcare a right.
As a conservative, wow. This is top level cringe, but then again so is the vast majority of theater. Subtlety, thy name is not Stage Right Theatrics.
So, I guess this theater group believes 'Cabaret' has a happy ending?
I work in theatre as a professional. This show is a master class in how to put on a high school student work. Start the show with characters screaming at fever pitch with no where to go. Non motivated blocking with actor's stopping, robotically turning their torso to "cheat out". Utter the phrase "So will have the same...uh...LIGHTS, WHATEVER THEY ARE...for when we... for when PEOPLE are bringing furniture out." He doesn't know what god damn LIGHT means! I have never seen such self sabotaging country bumpkin BS in my life. I actually feel better about being poor, right now.
"15 people were in the audience"
As Corky Sinclair would say "We may be going to Broad-way" 😂
That theatre group was WAAYYY too ambitious when it came to choosing their venue for their shows. If anything, they should've gone for a smaller black box setup. Fewer seats in house overall, but it's better suited for smaller audiences, is a lot cheaper and can be more intimate with the viewers.
Sigh... Conservatism is such a losing game, man.
If anything, Conservativism is just a PC term for Tribalism. Whether it's a Protestant in North America, Muslim in the Middle East, or a Buddhist in East Asia -- it is just multiple sides of the same "coin". They're afraid of their culture dying yet they seem to forget because of pop culture and education that legacies live on: i.e. The Old West, Latin language, Persian Empire, even dead religions.
Besides, pop culture businesses in the west (where it's affordable to make theatre, films, music, etc) caters to more inclusive/diverse demographics because that's where the money is. Asia and Africa make up well over half of the 7 billion+ people in the world. And that, fellow Americans, means money (AKA the country's life source).
This is pretty sad.
No Echochamber here, *jazz hands*.
And people wonder why Hollywood is full of liberals. Your answer is right on this video
These people are the unironic Starship Troopers.
There's room for conservative plays but they just need to be written better. These ones don't seem to be that inventive.
This is not theater. This is sh*t. Performed by horrible "actors" who feel threatened.
No wonder only 15 people showed up.
And I assume they gave out hundreds of comps.
So this is the republican art scene nowadays??? ROFL
A very diverse cast, I see. Blondes AND brunettes.
Nice! It’s “The Room” of stage productions. 😂
Dont talk to them, they will never change. Lets just start Voteing THEM out.
Please do use your vote. Disagreement does not equal hate.
What they mean by “liberal theatre” is artists making points through their arts about social and economic injustices. Shit, I just described art.
There r literally thousands of plays about cis gender nuclear families. They don’t have many social injustices but ppl in the LGBT community do so that why plays r written about them, to normalize and give empathy to those communities.
This remindes me of a baptist ultra right wing "community event."
As soon as the play started I stopped watching. I hate myself but not that much
They are awful actors that's why they are not welcome on regular theater.
Actually, we are largely professionals who work pretty consistently in central Ohio.
So they only put on plays that read like a Twitter feed or Chick tract and all feature a character yelling the thesis lines into another character's face. I feel better about my scripts now.
I WANT THE SCRIPTS I WANT THE SCRIPTS
the play looks as shallow and thinly veiled as their political message
15 people in the audience. Well that should tell them something.
This is what happens when LGBT people aren’t involved in theatre lol
I love the music they chosen for this video. Reminds me of it's always sunny in philly but I think the nightmancometh was a VERY right wing play. Think about it.
god its so bad. like if ur gonna have shitty opinions at least make a great play to makeup for it. i cant help feeling this isnt real
I’m a conservative, but this is stupid. Gives actual conservatives a bad rep..
These are people who don’t read plays. I own so many plays that are 10x better and from a straight-cis, usually white, lens. The writing is just bad like get a real writer to do this!
I’m like 45 seconds in and already embarrassed to be white right now.
Isn't conservative culture inherently the loser in the culture war. Progress is like a glacier, it can slow down to the brink of stillness but it is always moving forward.
An actual intelligent point by a liberal. Traditional conservativism is dead. Kudos. One caveat, moving forward isn't the same as progress.
It’s not that I don’t Mind if the play has political or social elements in it, it’s that if you want a play to be provocative and express your beliefs, I feel it should maybe be more subtle and less just outright saying it. I haven’t seen this persons play so I can’t say how I would feel about them making it, but from the looks of it, it just seems like your preaching to the quire.
This feels like an SNL sketch
S N O W F L A K E S
How bout a play where I go to the hospital for a broken leg and then I can express how happy I am working 60 hours a week between 2 jobs to pay the bills and not see my family or have any time to start learning a new trade and that's just how it is and I have to live with it, sounds like a good story.
When post people express how much they detest the left, they’re not saying they prefer conservatism. They’re saying they miss what liberalism used to stand for, especially when it came to freedom of speech.
Small local niche theater is small local niche theater! Shocker!
I'm a conservative from Ohio, and this is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.... Smh.
If only they had one ounce of self-awareness...
If only you had actually attended the festival instead of basing your opinions on slanted reporting.
Mimi 9d Don't worry. We saw plenty of clips to draw our own conclusions.
Mimi 9d The scene at 1:38 is all I needed to see.
*reads the title* Oh boy.......
They have the right to make conservative plays but the play felt so duuuuummmmmbbbb and directed to dumb people. Just my opinion, don't hate me.
I would love for you to see the actual plays not just snippets chosen to sell a slanted show.
@@mimi9d163 Nah, they suck
We had a play come to our middle school where a woman has sex for the first time and ends up with aids because duh
Maybe people aren't interested in shitty plays regardless of political opinions on the actors. Really their best screen plays are get married or you will die alone... Which is absolutely stupid and makes them look the horrible people.
These plays are like those shity conservative boomer memes you see on facebook or ironically posted on reddit all the time.
Ok...what are the shows that supposivly portray conservatives as "bumpkins." Many of the most well-known plays focus on traditional families (well I say that but it tends to be families with issues because theatre 🤣) There has only been an uptick in theatre with more diversity/themes surrounding LGBTQ+ and other previously controversial standpoints within the last few decades. I dont see why they're upset.
They need to do plays in South Carolina, not Ohio, if they want a bigger audience.
I've seen worse in central saint martins. People have the right to make whatever art they want.