Ah, the curses 'n blessin's of "The Scottish Play"--but sendin' ya all the best, Mary McDonald-Lewis, from an also cancelled actTruss & sum'timez filmmaker an' currently a substack-ian crackpot (who takes a lotta heat fer writin' like an Al Capp characteur!). (writin' in the vernacular keeps the AI bots away an' let's me take on a role s…
Ah, the curses 'n blessin's of "The Scottish Play"--but sendin' ya all the best, Mary McDonald-Lewis, from an also cancelled actTruss & sum'timez filmmaker an' currently a substack-ian crackpot (who takes a lotta heat fer writin' like an Al Capp characteur!). (writin' in the vernacular keeps the AI bots away an' let's me take on a role since I ain't gettin' cast now!)
You got gumption, milady, an' I hope all yer shows git made with yer name on the title an' all the support ya deserve. Ye know yer plight ain't rare... Fer various 'n sundry DEI excuses they fire / alienate / ruin folks that don't fit their paradigm (which is reDICKuLust woke malarkey). Been in that capsizin' boat mi'self (my younger daughter too)--cuz we ain't DiVERSE enuf (oy). Y'a likely know bout instances like this 'u'n:
He's not the only one! An'nuther fella, friend of our friends, who wuz workin' at the New Victory (kids thee-ate-er, NYC) had the same thing happen... they wanted non-white sign-erz fer the deaf. Funny, he wuzza gay guy but that didn't fit enuf checkboxes... They are hungry suck-u-busses these woketards... it's never enuf...
Bein' a "charak-teur" actruss I LOVE love love me mah dialects! (I larned with Lessac...an' trooly mah Standard Southern ain't near as wacky as mah writin' ;-) but anywayz... I've noticed over the last 10-15 years that now my be-loved dialects ain't pee-cee no more an' it gits worse 'n worse (more like dia-LECTICS t'day, marXist style). Lordy what's the whirled comin' ta if ye cain't chew up the scenery with fun accents? So not only are ye a playwright but a dialect coach--whut JOY!
By the by... ye should read John Hudson on Amelia Basanno Lanier--Shakespeare's Dark Lady cuz (I think you'll like it!) Shakespeare might've been a laydee! (given all them tee-riffic female roles--wull...I'm persuaded m'self!)
As a per-former, I know what it 'tis ta be cancelled too! We had ta leave our home (NYShitty) b/c we ALSO didn't comply with the insane the-AT-riCULL counter measures (i.e. not rollin' up our sleeves fer the covid jabs an' distancin' an' swabs up folks noses an' masks--imho the only the-ate-her in MASKS should be Greek! Medea, sure, but off off B'way? c'mon...) 'Fore I left I wuz teachin' a bunch'a teen gals improv (unmasked, undistanced, no-jabs-er-dumb-proty-culls required) an' ye wouldn't BELIEVE the hate I got... got cancelled by all the moms that claimed I wuz puttin' these girls at risk. Ended up nobuddy (nobuddy) got sick (no covid, no nuthin') an' the girls had a GRAND time not bein' forced ta be home on zoom. Nobuddy "made" anybuddy join--it just "galled" some that I'd dare teach without all them absurd rules in place. Every mama in our group wuz willin' ta take such a "risk" ta let their girls be with friends (we all 'r homeschoolers) an' have a ball. All those grumpy naysayers STILL won't talk ta me... This (I'm learnin') is whut happens when DOGMA invades life... (I'mma HUGE fan've doggies too btw!)
Like the fabulous ol' song... Pick Yourself Up (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields lyrics)... we gotta keep on doin' our stuff even in the face 've woketards, craptards, an' simply dang fools.
Toi Toi Toi fer yer next incarnation of The Macbeths!
Ah, the curses 'n blessin's of "The Scottish Play"--but sendin' ya all the best, Mary McDonald-Lewis, from an also cancelled actTruss & sum'timez filmmaker an' currently a substack-ian crackpot (who takes a lotta heat fer writin' like an Al Capp characteur!). (writin' in the vernacular keeps the AI bots away an' let's me take on a role since I ain't gettin' cast now!)
You got gumption, milady, an' I hope all yer shows git made with yer name on the title an' all the support ya deserve. Ye know yer plight ain't rare... Fer various 'n sundry DEI excuses they fire / alienate / ruin folks that don't fit their paradigm (which is reDICKuLust woke malarkey). Been in that capsizin' boat mi'self (my younger daughter too)--cuz we ain't DiVERSE enuf (oy). Y'a likely know bout instances like this 'u'n:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/broadway-interpreter-fired-for-being-white-settles-case-amid-backlash/
He's not the only one! An'nuther fella, friend of our friends, who wuz workin' at the New Victory (kids thee-ate-er, NYC) had the same thing happen... they wanted non-white sign-erz fer the deaf. Funny, he wuzza gay guy but that didn't fit enuf checkboxes... They are hungry suck-u-busses these woketards... it's never enuf...
Bein' a "charak-teur" actruss I LOVE love love me mah dialects! (I larned with Lessac...an' trooly mah Standard Southern ain't near as wacky as mah writin' ;-) but anywayz... I've noticed over the last 10-15 years that now my be-loved dialects ain't pee-cee no more an' it gits worse 'n worse (more like dia-LECTICS t'day, marXist style). Lordy what's the whirled comin' ta if ye cain't chew up the scenery with fun accents? So not only are ye a playwright but a dialect coach--whut JOY!
By the by... ye should read John Hudson on Amelia Basanno Lanier--Shakespeare's Dark Lady cuz (I think you'll like it!) Shakespeare might've been a laydee! (given all them tee-riffic female roles--wull...I'm persuaded m'self!)
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-hudson/shakespeares-dark-lady-amelia-bassano-lanier/
As a per-former, I know what it 'tis ta be cancelled too! We had ta leave our home (NYShitty) b/c we ALSO didn't comply with the insane the-AT-riCULL counter measures (i.e. not rollin' up our sleeves fer the covid jabs an' distancin' an' swabs up folks noses an' masks--imho the only the-ate-her in MASKS should be Greek! Medea, sure, but off off B'way? c'mon...) 'Fore I left I wuz teachin' a bunch'a teen gals improv (unmasked, undistanced, no-jabs-er-dumb-proty-culls required) an' ye wouldn't BELIEVE the hate I got... got cancelled by all the moms that claimed I wuz puttin' these girls at risk. Ended up nobuddy (nobuddy) got sick (no covid, no nuthin') an' the girls had a GRAND time not bein' forced ta be home on zoom. Nobuddy "made" anybuddy join--it just "galled" some that I'd dare teach without all them absurd rules in place. Every mama in our group wuz willin' ta take such a "risk" ta let their girls be with friends (we all 'r homeschoolers) an' have a ball. All those grumpy naysayers STILL won't talk ta me... This (I'm learnin') is whut happens when DOGMA invades life... (I'mma HUGE fan've doggies too btw!)
Like the fabulous ol' song... Pick Yourself Up (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields lyrics)... we gotta keep on doin' our stuff even in the face 've woketards, craptards, an' simply dang fools.
Toi Toi Toi fer yer next incarnation of The Macbeths!