In a freezing cold theatre - to a tiny audience - will it help to make up for that if I told you about the huge positive impact your play has had upon my family and upon my thoughts and actions? !
We talked non-stop about the play for two days after watching it - I know we are naughty taking our 13 and 14 year olds to see it when you clearly state for 15+...and during the 'fuck you' and rape scene we thought we would have to take them out....but then we all realised that we had to be shocked in order to understand and in order to wake us up to the reality of a possible future. Some of the matter of fact lines such as 'you'll have to read that to me...beatings play havoc with my eyesight' (or words to that effect!) have stuck in my head!
Since the play my 14 year old and I have discussed the importance of reading books such as Brave New World and 1984, as a family we have discussed the importance of questioning authority and government to maintain our own internal moral balance. The next day after watching the play I was in Waitrose looking for a magazine, a guy with dreadlocks and ripped jeans was beside me reading a political article, we both stood in silence reading/browsing for about 10 minutes. The store manager asked the dreadlock guy to put the mag down and to move along, the managers language was quite intimidating and the guy was totally meek and mild - said he was trying to decide whether or not to buy the magazine. The Manager gave up trying to move dread lock guy and left. I thought for a while and went to the information desk and asked to speak to the manager - I asked him why dread lock guy had been intimidated, but I had not ...was it because a primary teacher in Laura Ashley (Special) suited the shop image but the dread lock guy (Non-Spec) did not? He could not answer my question - I suggested that he should think through the consistent application of company policy and to be careful not to discriminate. This is the sort of thing I would have questioned years ago - thank you so much for waking me up from my Cath Kidston stupor!!!!!!
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In a freezing cold theatre - to a tiny audience - will it help to make up for that if I told you about the huge positive impact your play has had upon my family and upon my thoughts and actions? !
We talked non-stop about the play for two days after watching it - I know we are naughty taking our 13 and 14 year olds to see it when you clearly state for 15+...and during the 'fuck you' and rape scene we thought we would have to take them out....but then we all realised that we had to be shocked in order to understand and in order to wake us up to the reality of a possible future. Some of the matter of fact lines such as 'you'll have to read that to me...beatings play havoc with my eyesight' (or words to that effect!) have stuck in my head!
Since the play my 14 year old and I have discussed the importance of reading books such as Brave New World and 1984, as a family we have discussed the importance of questioning authority and government to maintain our own internal moral balance. The next day after watching the play I was in Waitrose looking for a magazine, a guy with dreadlocks and ripped jeans was beside me reading a political article, we both stood in silence reading/browsing for about 10 minutes. The store manager asked the dreadlock guy to put the mag down and to move along, the managers language was quite intimidating and the guy was totally meek and mild - said he was trying to decide whether or not to buy the magazine. The Manager gave up trying to move dread lock guy and left. I thought for a while and went to the information desk and asked to speak to the manager - I asked him why dread lock guy had been intimidated, but I had not ...was it because a primary teacher in Laura Ashley (Special) suited the shop image but the dread lock guy (Non-Spec) did not? He could not answer my question - I suggested that he should think through the consistent application of company policy and to be careful not to discriminate. This is the sort of thing I would have questioned years ago - thank you so much for waking me up from my Cath Kidston stupor!!!!!!
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