16 Replies to “Are You Brown Enough To Review Our Play?”

  1. It’s on my same priority of watching these Gay and Trans programs…
    NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
    And…knock off Guys wearing PINK.
    It usually looks ridiculous…hmm…Don Cherry kind of thing.

  2. “… and submitting to preconditions on what they may say about it.”

    There’s only one thing I need to say about plays our elite put-on the the edification of we, the great unwashed – “I didn’t go.”

  3. Seems like somebody thinks their brown doesn’t stink and these two dimwads are afraid to say otherwise.

  4. Allow me to translate, I speak Progressivese. “The play was a steaming pile of hot garbage and I wish I had the courage to say as much”.
    Reminded me of my son’s high school years where the aboriginal students put on a production about how hard done by they are. Attendance was…wait for it…”compulsory”.
    I told him to come home – I’ll deal with it. But sadly, never had too.

  5. Brown enough to review the play?

    “Justin Trudeau acted wonderfully in his role as PM. His wore a variety of costumes, but his make up needed work.”

  6. We had some house painting done by a lady who works at Stratford part time. She seemed like a reasonable person. What a septic tank of crap the Stratford Festival has become. The intersection of union work rules and Woke Fragility has brewed a stew more toxic than than the 3 hags. The high priced tickets ain’t worth it.

    1. When I responded to a request for More Donations to keep the Festival going during the 2020 lockdown, I noted that the Festival’s pursuit of wokeness was doing serious damage to the quality of the productions and the doorcrasher two-for-one sales in the 2019 season were the result. I’ve spent over $1000 on tickets each season for over a decade because I love Shakespeare, but I was distressed.

      I got a direct response form the Festival’s ****ing Editorial Director (and what the hell is an “Editorial Director” in a theatre) telling me that if I disagreed with the Festival’s messaging that the plays were not for me. I promptly got my tickets refunded.

      I’ve no idea if they’re hurting financially but their latest self-own appears to be bussing in large numbers of melanin-enhanced patrons from the city, who behave according to the “…in a theater” stereotype. I got a survey couched in careful language about whether my experience at the Festival had been negatively impacted by patrons with a different standard of behaviour at a public performance.

      The whole place can’t burn to the ground fast enough. When they have to go back to performing classic Shakespeare under a tent by the river for hat change maybe they’ll learn.

  7. I take it, then, that reviews that are less than stellar would be considered “racist” and need to be approved in advance?

    That’s like saying that Prinz Dummkopf is an expert marksman. He shoots from the hip, hits something, and the target is painted around the bullet hole which, of course, will be centred in the bull’s eye.

  8. Canada’s cultural elite have been the gatekeepers of our entire entertainment industry for most of my life. Want to try to be a successful standup comic in Canada? Well you better hope that the CBC decides your going to be the next big thing otherwise all you’ll get is second tier comedy club gigs. If you’re a musician you have to leave the country to make any money, same with acting. Unless, of course, the elites have decided that you’re what they want to market as Canadian talent. Then you’ll be everywhere, on every special that gets aired until the public can’t stand seeing you anymore then they’ll move on to the next big thing. While they make a show of touting successful Canadian athletes they would rather not. They’re just so sweaty.
    Want to be an entertainment critic? You will cover what they tell you to, you will cover it how they tell you to cover it, and you will espouse the “Canadian values” that they tell you to.
    The elites have been charged with the sacred duty of protecting Canadian culture from contamination of anything deemed too American. The problem is nobody bothered asking Canadians what they want.

    1. The elites have been charged with the sacred duty of protecting Canadian culture from contamination of anything deemed too American. The problem is nobody bothered asking Canadians what they want.

      Much of that goes back to the Cancon rules that were inflicted upon us by PET, which ensured that third-rate Canadian entertainment was upgraded to second-rate.

      One result of that was that we were forbidden from hearing the original American recordings of certain songs on the radio, being treated, instead, to inferior cover versions. However, anybody with a half-decent receiver could hear those originals at night, provided the propagation conditions were good.

      Atmospheric physics didn’t recognize or respect PET’s authority.

      1. Growing up in Windsor in the early 70’s, I never had to worry about good music, the Detroit stations came in just fine. Sports were a different story. I didn’t know the CFL even existed until we moved to outside of Hamilton in the mid 80’s. Because of the broadcast agreements at the time, the CBC would only air Montreal games so the Wings wouldn’t have to compete with Toronto for airtime locally.

  9. Taxpayer-subsidized Culture? The CBC would approve. Any critical comments are Hate Speech, obviously. So I won’t be making any.

  10. There was an indigenous movie on the CBC on the weekend about a couple of women. I flipped to it for a few seconds.
    No one bangable.

    End of review.

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