Walton Co. School Board Meets about Blithe Spirit!!

[NoHall]

Truethespian will go far in church theater.;-)

He had mentioned that the school should have performed Grease instead of Blithe Spirit. I laughed out loud, then Googled to find out what I already knew- that Grease is quite controversial as a high school play choice, but didn't find any high schools having issues with Blithe Spirit.

C'mon, now, JDarg--If you just leave out the parts that refer to sex and teenage pregnancy and drinking and smoking and cussing and more sex, Grease is a sweet little (5 minute) musical.

 

[olive]

C'mon, now, JDarg--If you just leave out the parts that refer to sex and teenage pregnancy and drinking and smoking and cussing and more sex, Grease is a sweet little (5 minute) musical.

"Tell me more, tell me more....."

 

[scooterbug44]

I really dont think it is any of your business where i go to school and it is really has no concern to this thread but just to make you happy i am attending OWC as part of dual enrollment full-time so that i will have my Acting Associates Degree when i graduate from high school. I am apart of SWHS International Thespian Society and i was in all three plays last year. I have been to two performing arts schools where i have majored in theatre and musical theatre. I have directed two full length musicals and i have been in four plays. I have also performed in Trumbauer music and theatre competition for solo comedic male song in the district and state competition. And yes my parent does know that i post stuff on this site and she doesnt have a problem with it. So there, are you happy? Any other questions?

For one, the nutcracker is not being produced by the school. But still the reason why we are against blithe spirit is not because of "magic" it is because of the "darkness" of the play.

I don't know what performing arts schools you've been attending, but you are going to have a VERY limited career if you are already trying to get "dark" plays banned when you are still in high school. You'll find that there's nothing the professional theatre community loves quite as much as censorship :roll:.

 

[NoHall]

I don't know what performing arts schools you've been attending, but you are going to have a VERY limited career if you are already trying to get "dark" plays banned when you are still in high school. You'll find that there's nothing the professional theatre community loves quite as much as censorship :roll:.

I held auditions for a show tonight. I mentioned this mess to the director I'm working with, and we laughed about how it's nearly impossible to find a show that someone won't object to. Even Shakespeare is messy. (How many of his shows involve witchcraft and "dark" themes?)

 

[scooterbug44]

I held auditions for a show tonight. I mentioned this mess to the director I'm working with, and we laughed about how it's nearly impossible to find a show that someone won't object to. Even Shakespeare is messy. (How many of his shows involve witchcraft and "dark" themes?)

You can't please everyone 100% of the time and if you try, you'll end up with such a watered down boring mess that noone will like it anyway!

Why do I have the crazy notion that plays & great literature are supposed to be thought provoking and have ideas and themes that challenge the mind and the status quo? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was educated with books that would apparently be banned and by wonderful teachers they would probably try to get fired.

If you don't like a book, you choose not to read it, you don't ban it and look for the lighter fluid.

If you don't like a play, you don't go see it. This is even easier to do when it is a school production and you don't even have kids in that school :roll:.

As far as dark or adult themes, I think I'll do a little reading before going to sleep. Should I read the Bible story about fratricide (Cain & Abel), voyeurism and adultery (David & Bathsheba), an angel of death slaughtering infants in their cribs (Moses), genocide (Esther) or one of the many passages involving polygamy, prostitution, slavery, or murder?

 

[GoodWitch58]

You can't please everyone 100% of the time and if you try, you'll end up with such a watered down boring mess that noone will like it anyway!

Why do I have the crazy notion that plays & great literature are supposed to be thought provoking and have ideas and themes that challenge the mind and the status quo? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was educated with books that would apparently be banned and by wonderful teachers they would probably try to get fired.

If you don't like a book, you choose not to read it, you don't ban it and look for the lighter fluid.

If you don't like a play, you don't go see it. This is even easier to do when it is a school production and you don't even have kids in that school :roll:.

As far as dark or adult themes, I think I'll do a little reading before going to sleep. Should I read the Bible story about fratricide (Cain & Abel), voyeurism and adultery (David & Bathsheba), an angel of death slaughtering infants in their cribs (Moses), genocide (Esther) or one of the many passages involving polygamy, prostitution, slavery, or murder?

BRAVO

 

[Indigo Jill]

Why are people complaining about these emails that were sent out?

To be quite frank, everyone could have sent out emails if they wanted to. That was your choice and to me it just sounds like jealousy.

It's not that an email was sent out to rally for a cause that I find disturbing - it's the sweepingly ignorant message contained in the email posted that I am absolutely blown away by. The tone is alarmist and paranoid and it preaches intolerance for other religions. It's a stellar example of what is wrong with organized religion and why it's become dangerous IMO.

I honestly - I'm serious here - don't understand how anyone can read something like that and not question the integrity of the church - or maybe on a grander scale the religion - they are affliated with.

 

[InletBchDweller]

As far as dark or adult themes, I think I'll do a little reading before going to sleep. Should I read the Bible story about fratricide (Cain & Abel), voyeurism and adultery (David & Bathsheba), an angel of death slaughtering infants in their cribs (Moses), genocide (Esther) or one of the many passages involving polygamy, prostitution, slavery, or murder?

Scooterbug44, I was thinking the same thing last night,. The Bible has many stories that others can view as :shock:.
Thanks for posting what I did not feel like writing...

 

[30A Skunkape]

It's not that an email was sent out to rally for a cause that I find disturbing - it's the sweepingly ignorant message contained in the email posted that I am absolutely blown away by. The tone is alarmist and paranoid and it preaches intolerance for other religions. It's a stellar example of what is wrong with organized religion and why it's become dangerous IMO.

I honestly - I'm serious here - don't understand how anyone can read something like that and not question the integrity of the church - or maybe on a grander scale the religion - they are affliated with.

They think it is a plank in the platform that keeps them outta Hell. Or so they are told.

 

[30A Skunkape]

And one more thing I thought about over the weekend...Jews and Christians alike accept the erotica in the Old Testament's Song of Solomon as an allegory of God's love of Israel...why is it so difficult to pound it through some noggins that not everything written is meant to be taken literally? Never read Solomon's Song? Google it; it is racy, way racier than anything in Blithe Spirit.