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Christian protesters attempt to destroy a piece of theatre
posted by Cheshire on Sat, Apr 21, 2007
in News
I just got word that Thursday night, during a performance at American Repertory Theatre by Mike Daisey (a monologuist in the Spalding Gray tradition), a group abruptly got up, all 87 of them, and walked out. On the way out, one person dumped water on Mike's table, damaging the original copy of his notes (he performs without a script, and his handwritten notes are his original outline). Reports are that the protesters were part of a Christian group, but I don't know any more details than that. Update: it was a public high school group, from California no less (albeit part of red-state California), but the chaperones indeed invoked their Christianity as the basis for the protest.
Here's the whole thing caught on video.
Mike is someone I know (he's performed at Berkeley Rep), and I like him personally. I'd hate for this to happen to anyone, but I'm especially angry that it happened to Mike. They could have just walked out -- it would have been extremely rude and bewildering, but it would still have been free speech (mostly). The extra action of pouring water on his notes is where it really crossed the line. It's a constitutional right to declare publicly that you don't like something, but it's utterly unconscionable to attempt to destroy someone's art.
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Christians are cunts.
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| Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Christians are cunts.