MEMBER BLOG TAG: assassination
| Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:58AM | | | | Writing Lesson From a Mime | Tags: Dallas Theater Center, Theater of Nations, As I Lay Dying, Kennedy assassination, Baylor University, Journey to Jefferson, Marcell Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Waco, Jean-Louis Barrault, Faulkner, Hemingway
| | | | The Dallas Theater Center was selected to present my adaptation of a Faulkner novel at the Theater of Nations competition in Paris. The year was 1964, a year after the Kennedy assassination, and the novel was As I Lay Dying. A troubled Charles “Chip” Bohlen, US ambassador to France, called to say that the French loved President Kennedy and posters highlighting Dallas and “As I Lay Dying” would horrify them. The title of the play had to be changed.
On a transatlantic call I changed the title of the play to “Journey to Jefferson,” and the Dallas Theater Center production of the play received a Special Jury Award.
One night when we were dark, the cast decided to see Marcell Marceau who was appearing at... | | | | | | | Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:32PM | | | | The Bible Made Me Do It | Tags: assassination, genocide, bigotry, greed
| | | | Remember the good old days when it was the devil who made people do bad things? In the supercharged religiosity of today, the politically religious claim the Bible is the culprit that tempts them to hatred, separatism, exceptionalism, bigotry, and economic excess. It’s the Bible that requires the especially religious to own churches, ranches, extravagant homes, jet airplanes and politicians.
The Bible makes some call for the assassination of democratically elected political leaders in other countries, and others to pray for the death of Barack Obama. It compels some to kill doctors who put the life, health and welfare of women above that of a fertilized cell.
The Bible requires others to carry Christianity into Muslim countries at the point of a bayonet, lobby for the... | | | | | |
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