saw a production of Midsummer Night's Dream in the park today it was great to get out of the house and be in public with a lot of people, and baby got to taste lots of new foods and play in lavender. she was very well behaved for the whole show
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the play had a small alteration. at the end of this block of text, Peter Quince interrupted Snout before he could deliver the final word, and corrected him: "Orifice!"pic.twitter.com/l2DwdeKzdW
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this seems like the worst thing one could do. out of several options. first, obviously, one could simply ignore the fact that a legitimately innocuous word happens to be a slur and just plow through the original text and trust people not to be five year olds about it
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one could also simply alter the couplet and keep the rhyme scheme to convey the same idea without using that word, if one were concern that your entire (checks notes) audience of community theater-goers was made up of racist toddlers
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or I guess you could as they did simply draw as much attention to the substitution as you possibly could so that everyone in the audience knew that you were reading the original completely out of context as a slur and then choose the most obnoxious synonym that you could think of
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a fourth and genuinely bold option that had not occurred to me is to recontextualize the entire play around punning the unintended slur in the fifth acthttps://twitter.com/doinglifting/status/1424563449925967875?s=19 …
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the real question is: what were they trying to do? was this done in a spirit of fun? was Peter Quince a stand-in for a neurotic showrunner, or an expression of the actual neuroticism of the cast?https://twitter.com/storebrandguy/status/1424564990191673348?s=19 …
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mulling this further i have decided that I would be equally happy with this being a deliberate jab at the company's patrons, or an unintentional self-parody, so in conclusion this actually owns. thanks for your help everyone!
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