ASU and U of A and NAU Theatre is Godless These Days

Dear Readers,

Arizona State University is doing a play called "Dreaming Darwin." From the blurb:

School of Theatre and Film faculty members Lance Gharavi and Jacob Pinholster assembled a team of ASU student artists and created a new work that would be a “fantasy on a theme” about Charles Darwin. This workshop production follows a successful 2009 staged reading and is the next step in the evolutionary process of creating a play – just in time for Darwin’s birthday!

Why the heck should ASU theatre students celebrate Darwin's birthday? I'm more inclined to celebrate Darwin's death-day. Geez, a play romanticizing Charles Darwin. What will they think of next?

How about they write a new play, "My Supper with Satan." I can see the advertisement now:

ASU students and faculty have joined cloven hooves to create a new theatrical work celebrating the eternal works of the Prince of Darkness! This play seeks to feature Satan in a totally new light- Incandescent Fuschia! After the show, audience members can participate in a sacrifice on a real Satanic altar! B.Y.O.B. (Bring your own bunny) Suitable for all ages!

Ha ha ha.

Another play ASU is doing is very politically charged. Here's the blurb promoting "La Casa Rosa":

Performance in the Borderlands opens its Fall Season with the presentation of La Casa Rosa, a play that has New York residents buzzing about the other side of immigration: the experiences of families left behind. Drawing inspiration from the real lives and experiences of a group of indigenous women from the town of Tetlanohcan in central Mexico, the play is the tale of two sisters struggling for control of their ancestral land.

Location: Arizona Latino Arts Center (corner of First Street and Adams in downtown Phoenix ), a Performance in the Borderlands Community Partner. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the group, called Soame Citlalime (Women of the Star in Náhuatl, the local language) ... It will be performed in Spanish with English super-titles.

I have to think that this play was chosen with the immigration issue in mind. I think that this play will encourage audience members to dislike Sheriff Joe Arpaio, apologize for America, and vote Democratic.

Oh, I forgot to mention that NAU is also weighing in on the immigration debate by bringing Luis Valdez to the campus. Luis Valdez is an accomplished actor and writer, but he's more into politics these days. He seems like a nice guy, but I'm pretty sure he's a communist. I think when Mr. Valdez visits the Flagstaff campus, he'll work on recruiting new members of La Raza, encourage ethnic solidarity among Hispanic students, advocate for open borders, and advocate for liberalism.

Now let's take a quick look at the University of Arizona Theatre department, and see what they're doing.

They're doing What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney. Here’s an excerpt from the blurb:

As Charlie looks back on the summer he was 14, the foibles of his upper-middle-class upbringing are revealed. By the time summer ends, life-altering experiences have sown the seeds of change, highlighting the wonder of individual will against the crushing conformity of society. Adult language and themes.

I have three problems with that blurb. (I'm getting sick of saying "blurb," by the way, but I can't think of anything else to call it.)

First, the term, “upper-middle-class.” Have you ever wondered why liberals are so quick to use the terms "lower class", "upper class", "middle class"? It's because liberals love to fan the flames of class warfare. It comes straight out of the Communist Manifesto: “The history of the world is a history of class struggle.” Notice how many times Barack Obama uses those terms. It's annoying and dangerous.

Second, "the crushing conformity of society." Liberals are always whining about "conformity." They're busy trying to make free Americans think that they are enslaved.

Third, "adult language and themes." If they have to put in that notice, you know it’s got to be really bad. I remember when I was in high school, my drama class took a field trip to the University of Arizona, and we saw a play called "I Hate Hamlet" and it had the F word in it, and some other objectionable material, including a joke making fun of Mormons. There wasn't a warning or anything.

I'll show you yet another example of the depravity abounding in our state college theatre departments.

ASU is doing "Big Love," which does not have anything to do with the controversial HBO show, but the play's advertisement says, "This performance is intended for mature audiences and contains nudity."

You may be wondering, Why is Telemoonfa concerned with the plays Arizona's colleges are doing? Why doesn't Telemoonfa bury his head in his self-imposed suburban Christian bubble?

Well, I'm concerned because I love drama, I love Arizona, and I love studying drama in Arizona. But I'm worried that Christian conservative students who like drama won't be able to study drama at college without compromising their values. While I was at college, I personally saw a lot of good young Christian sheep leave the fold. And some of their waywardness began in their theatre classes.

Some may say that if conservative Christians want to avoid temptation, then they ought to go to a private college more in line with their values. That's a practical solution for some students, but the problem with that is that state colleges are publicly funded, and private schools usually aren't.

Your tax dollars are funding theatrical nudity! Does that bother you?

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa