An Incident At The Theater

Wow, this is a really interesting incident at a live theater performance, that really confuses about how to protest and how not to protest and how the great artists in life handle the unknown.  Kudos to Mike Daisey for handling this with grace and improv for people who are ~'Christians' and should be living their lives at a higher level rather than this.  I just saw "The Passion" and unfortunately, these people looked like they were on the Roman side instead of the Christian side...

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Thursday night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline.

You can read about the incident, the aftermath and its consequences, as well as view YouTube footage of the whole thing going down, here:

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/04/night-to-remember.sht

Apologies to all for mailing again so soon, but it's a sobering reminder that speech is never free unless it is defended ardently, and that even simple civility isn't simple when intolerant extremism is involved.

All the best,

md