Contemporary Culturalism's Roots

I did get a subscription to Metal magazine, but I wasn’t a true metalhead. I maybe went to a Bon Jovi concert. I had a Cinderella album, “Long Cold Winter.” It was a weird time to come of age because you have a burgeoning sense of your own sexuality, and your objects of desire are long-haired, permed, lipstick-wearing, Spandexed boys. I had a huge crush on all of those dudes with those pulsing pants and high kicks and beautiful glowing pink mouths.

Sheila Callaghan, Playwright,
whose latest effort, “That Pretty Pretty; or, the Rape Play” is reviewed here.

Bad News: Leftist Culture to UK

Israeli play to be performed in British National Theater

Israel's national theater Habima makes an unprecedented achievement: In May 2010, an Israeli Hebrew-language play will be performed at the British National Theater for the first time in history.

In meetings with Habima Theater’s artistic director, Ilan Ronen, it was agreed to stage two plays in London and in Tel Aviv in 2010, which would deal with the British Mandate era and its implications on the complex political reality between Israel and the Palestinians.

According to Haaretz's Tzipi Shochat, the meeting at which the decision was taken was also attended by David (the "Yellow Wind") Grossman, an early Peace Now activist who exploited his position as editor and presenter on Kol Yisrael to promote leftwing ideas and positions, and Zev (anticolonialist) Sternhel.

Three left-wingers do not a fair presentation make of the Mandate period and the issue of the "Palestinians", which Haaretz termed "the political conflict between Jews and Palestinians", not Arabs please note!

And so the radical trendy lefty subversion of Israel continues, at a theater in London.


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UPDATE


On the playwright:

Of course, Anda is a figment of Hillel's imagination, but that's his job as a playwright, he must tell the human story without which it is impossible to put on the play. These things took place; there was intervention. Mapai was the state, and the state was Mapai."

Do you think a playwright is obligated to the historical truth?

"As I see it, the basis of the historical truth must be there, but a performance or a play is not a documentary film."

What Won't Be Done

There's a new play being presented entitled Kol Nidrei.

Here's the promo advert:



Yehoshua Sobol, a bohemian and long-time radical playwright, is its author. He's anti-religious and anti-nationalist. Nu, then what can we expect?

I checked this Hebrew site and this one to find out the plot.

There's a Nahman and Esther. He's in a Kollel and she works in a computer company as the provider. No children. And Nahman has a non-observant lover, Pasquelle, who has just announced she's pregnant by him. Not to be outdone, Esther has a lover, Avsha, Nahman's commander in his reserve army unit who is going "off the way". Nahmna's parmour wants to become religious for his sake and when Esther takes off her religious garb, Pasquelle puts her clothes on herself. Getting into 'secular' garb for a Friday night at a bar, Nahman and Avsha sing Kol Nidrei.

Three of the actors, Menachem Lang, Nadfav Segel and Gili Yoskovicz, were actually observant before becoming secular and supposedly provided Sobol with their personal experiences for material. But many of the reviewers I scanned don't buy the play as entertaining or with cultural value and have panned it.

What won't be done.