The Mawa Theatre Company, another bunch of cunts who are going to take a fresh look at Shakespeare, I guess that means rewriting the great works to be ‘more inclusive’ and ‘more diverse’ and appeal to a wider audience.
What is so special about this lot, isn’t every cunt trying to fuck Shakespeare up the ass, well they are all female, OK, that’s a bit sexist, but it doesn’t end there.
They are all black, so no white allowed, isn’t that racist, no not a chance because everyone knows that black people cannot be racist.
What a load of shite, I saw it on the BBC but there isn’t much of write up so I have gone with a link from the Guardian who are spunking all over it.
Nominated by: Sick of It
I cant think if one female black character in the whole of Shakespeare. There is one man of course; Othello.
Wait a minute there is one – the ‘dark lady’ of the sonnets.
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The new Miss Ireland is black. I clicked on it it. And it was about how she had suffered Racism.
I was wondering where she was from Cork or Limerick or Dublin. What she hoped to do do in life. Her parentage maybe.
Maybe even how she celebrated her win.
But no we cut straight to the racism that she said she had suffered
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This is the problem. Everyone obsessed with their identity.
Rio Ferdinand has been on about it. Trying to explain to his kids about ‘monkey emojis’ on tweets he receives. Why mention it? Especially to your kids? Why get stuck in it? Just don’t bother about it.
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That’s right Miles. The “Dark Lady” in the sonnets is described in terms that make her sound like she really was a dark-key – or at least a North African. She has black frizzy hair and dark brown skin. Shakespeare was certainly not immune to the seductive qualities of the dark-key female. He might also have batted both ways, but that’s disputed.
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Yes I think so MMCM. He is saying it seems she was black. Not a dark swarthy European.
‘In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name;
But now is black beauty’s successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature’s power,
Fairing the foul with Art’s false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress’ eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland’ring creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.’
Sonnet 127 by William Shakespeare
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Good quote. Shakespeare was a bit of a lad in his youth.
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Yeah I remember reading about the ‘loose morality’ of the sonnets. They are intense. His language at its most dense. Difficult to follow I mean
The other thing that interests me is his wife.; Anne Hathaway. The fact the she was older than him. It doesn’t sound from his Will that it was very hapoy. Famously he left her his ‘second best bed’. Not even the best one.
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Yes, poor old Anne was abandoned in Stratford-onAvon, although our hero handsomely provided for her.
The fascinating thing about the sonnets is untangling the biographical details they give us of Shakespeare. Thousands of pages have been expended trying to piece this together. Of course, there may have been not much autobiography in them – they could have been fantasy. But even if they are fantasy, they tell us something about Shakespeare. I think they were autobiographical and Shakespeare was definitely “man about town”.
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What is the Shakespearean Tragedy here is they will be ‘exploring’ the texts for any mention of colour or race or gender and miss the deeper meaning of the play.
It really is sad.
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I agree. It’s like missing the wood for the trees.
The academic study of English Literature has gone down the pan for the same reasons. Any young person who loves English Lit should I under no circumstances enroll on a university degree course to study it. Such courses should be renamed English Literature Hatred Studies.
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The dark lady is rumoured to have been a white boy, btw. Just as inclusive, diverse and vibrant, I guess.
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The plot thickens …..
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I can’t see a massive queue for tickets but I won’t be going anyway. I can’t see me being very popular among the Guardianistas after i’ve vomited all over the cunts.🤮
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Like that tripe “Hamilton “. Full of woke lefties wanking themselves stupid.
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‘Enry de fiffed’ innit.
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How does wokifying Shakespeare make him “accessible for a new generation” what these cunts fail to appreciate is that Shakespeare is already universal in his appeal and accessible to anyone who takes the time to discover him on his own terms. How else has appreciation of Shakespeare spread across the globe – from Argentina to China?
I’d fuck the one second from left though.
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…in the Guardian photo that is, not the nom picture.
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Remember when entertainment was just about “ bums on seats”? Black people don’t go to the theatre which is why the Hackney Empire is always going bust.
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The Guardian – providing the UK with emergency bog roll since 1821.
Couldn’t help noticing that a couple of the effnik bints in the photo aren’t exactly dark keys either.
One looks oriental and one looks like a white bird with a decent tan and a bit of a perm.
Maybe yellow is the new black.
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The fuckable oriental looking one is Maisy Bawden who was in Eastenders. Don’t think she has any Asian blood. Looks mixed -maybe half dark-key and half English.
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Morning MMCM
I stand corrected.
She looks oriental in that particular Guardian photo but not so much in others.
Yes she’s also very fuckable.
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Morning Herman.
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2B or not 2B: That is the pencil.
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They should stage Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little N***ers” (And Then There Were None).
Bottom row, 2nd along (ie 1st face) is not unattractive…
Oh I wonder what word caused this to be filtered. Hint: It wasn’t Agatha – DA
I’m also still very busy and in a bad mood so nobody start anything today.
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Hee-hee, I have the Pan edition of that book in the Creampuff Manor Library.
https://biblio.co.nz/book/ten-little-pan-4-christie/d/1046281603
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It will have to be burned, Ruff. The new woke Fahrenheit 451 Fire Brigade will be around presently.
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Those edgy rebels at R4X did a reading of Fahrenheit 451 last week. There may yet be some dissent within the Blacked-up Buggery Corp.
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I’m sure the irony was lost on them.
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Shakespeare in the style of takeaway food, worn out BMW cars and crack cocaine….can’t wait.
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‘Dat am de questyin innit’
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‘Wever dis is better to top myself like,
Or suffer dem wikid slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Innit”?
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“I have a dream…. that one day actors will not be chosen by the colour of their skin, but by their suitability for the parts and ability to act.”
(Muff Luff Kingpuff, September 2021)
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Merit went out the window with Chicken George.
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And previously, with the appointment of Cressida Strap-On.
In fact so lacking in merit is she that the government wants to extend her contract for another two years when it runs out next April.
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Why is it OK for an organisation, group, club or whatever other sad BAME wanky gathering allowed to get away with saying that they are exclusively bleck but on god’s earth there is no fucking way we’d get away with saying whitey’s only.
Why are we constantly pandering to this.
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I suspect that this man would like to play Othello:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teen-girl-sexually-assaulted-london-bus-wood-green-b954634.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=homepage_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=4
“The Moor! I hear his trumpet call!” (Desdemona) – I suspect this Othello had got the horn too.
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I would definitely dry bum some of those blekie actress.
No need for any acting luv.
The rest of it wants burning to the ground.
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I wouldn’t touch them with a nob I’d found in the street.
The one top row second from the right isn’t bad though. Probably got a huge chip on her shoulder though if she’s part of this shite.
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Nothing that a little poke in the arse wouldn’t sort out!
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She’s white. Self identifying as black.
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I wonder if they break into song during their performances?
“I’ll walk a million miles, for one your smiles..”
Or maybe, “Camptown races sing dis song..’
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This shit will burn itself out at some point when the general populace of the realm realise it’s a bit like the emperors new clothes.
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The trouble is the media keep telling the general populace these are the emperor’s new clothes, and you will like them or it’s hate crime.
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Wait a minute, Shakespeare was black so what is wrong with having exclusively black lezzas playing the parts in his plays? Not cultural appropriation at all, innit. Makes it accessible to the kids; gets them off the street, drugs and stabbing each other, and into workshops exploring the subtexts to ‘The Two Whiteys of Verona’. Therefore, can’t support the nom as it is waycist. Roots, jerk, chiggun, ganja, machete, architect.
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Men played women in Shakey’s day. Ahead of his time. Anne Boleyn was black ( I seen it on CH5, bruv) so why not the rest.
Chiggun
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Remember folks, it’s perfectly ok to have a blacks only thing.
Whites only?
What are you? A racist or something?
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Mercury music prize, latest winner is another person of colour, the nominations should state no whites allowed 😂
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Didn’t dey use da mercury for whitening-up, bro, innit?
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The “logic” clearly is that you defeat racism with racism.
Racism is never going away.
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I’m beginning to enjoy this a little. Remember when segregation was a terrible thing? And now the wokies can’t get enough of it.
Now if some of our recent visitors would segregate themselves into a blacks-only stronghold like Nigeria, I might even be able to smile again.
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Is there nothing out of bounds to these fuckwits? Ruining English culture for the hell of it. Why don’t they fuck off and write their own play? Oh, that’s right, they can’t, they’re talentless cunts. So they hijack some other culture’s endeavours. Get to fuck.
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You beat me to it…
If you don’t like what’s on offer, go and write Beethoven’s 9 symphonies for the 21stC, or Wagner’s operas, or Shakespeare.
What do the eggands manage? Rap.
What an utter heap of wank.
I read that one of the “classical” Kanneh-Masons likes Dr. Dre. Sounds like an anti-dandruff shampoo that Claudia Vinkelmann might advertise.
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Questions for the audience. 1 Are tyre swings supplied? 2 Is chiggun and Umbongo served in the interval? 3 Can I stab fellow members of the audience? 4 Will reparations be paid by whitey?
What is needed is a packed house and a theatre fire like the one in Exeter in the 1880’s
What fucking bollocks all this appeasement is.
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This “theatre company” has received funding from the arts council? I wish to place on record that I am implacably opposed to my taxes being spent in this way. In fact, considering its record, the arts council should be closed down forthwith.
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Good comment A you would be very very hard pushed to find something closer to pure wokery than the fucking arts council.
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Villian, have they done thy mother?
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I like a sootie on the stage.
Something to throw at isnt it?
DONT take soft fruit to throw!!
Theyll be off that stage into the audience if you do.
No, I find ball bearings best.
If your frail tell the theatre staff theyll seat you in the front row,
Where you can get better aim with a hunting catapult.
Right in the teef.
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Hi MNC, Ouch that would sting in the morning!!
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We few, we happy few, we band of lezzas.
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fuck me they all look the same….it looks like one of those colour shade paint cards from b and q
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I can just picture their version of Romeo and Juliet:
Romeo: Jules, honey chile, I’m a gonna thrill you like you’ve never been thrilled before!
Juliet: Hows dat den, daddy?
Romeo: I’m gonna tickle your belly button, honey!
Juliet: But sweet daddy, I’ve had that done before!
Romeo: What, woman – from the INSIDE!!!
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Black people will not be interested, and only pretentious virtue signalling white middle and upper class will attend, mostly so they can brag relentlessly on twitter.
As long as I don’t have to contribute financially or in any other regard I couldn’t give a fuck.
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The trouble is we do contribute. The taxpayer needs to be told what’s good for them.
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You already do contribute financially. They receive funding from the Arts Council which is bankrolled by the taxpayer.
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It should be dubbed over by Johnny Morris.
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I gave up on British theatre for good when I discovered that a BAME woman was playing Richard II. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Richard II was either a woman or a sambeau. The p@k!/peaceful ‘reimagining’ of Hobson’s Choice was bad enough. But the ‘blackjacking’ and the feminazism of a Shakespeare play about an English King?! The woman who played ‘Richard’ in this pile of woke dog turd is apparently a ‘Legendary actor’ (their words, not mine). But the only thing I remember her in was an episode of Doctor Whoke, and she was crap in that.
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‘By filtering Shakespeare through a black female lens the company hoped to shed new light on classic works, show their universality and make them more accessible to certain communities’.
Sounds as if somebody at the Guardian took a course via Common Purpose.
I wonder if the plays will ‘centre black voices’ as well?
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