Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Edgy theatre content sparks off-stage debate about trigger warnings
CBC News: If you want to trigger a strong response from theatre folk, ask them how they feel about trigger warnings: The debate about if and when to use them has the theatre community deeply divided.
These new type of audience advisories warn of specific plot points that may provoke psychological trauma in some audience members.
‘Awakening: After Parkland’ Interview
www.vulture.com: Three months after the Valentine’s Day massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Sawyer Garrity and five of her peers performed in a local production of Spring Awakening — a show they started rehearsing before the mass shooting that claimed 17 of their schoolmates. Their rehearsals and performances were chronicled in Awakening: After Parkland, a short documentary that premiered Monday on Topic.
Why calling women 'strong female leads' is degrading
www.usatoday.com/story/life: Good news first: Screenwriters are learning that not all
women are downer wives, hot girlfriends or shrews. But in a knee-jerk reaction to the times, Hollywood is trying to make up for lost ground, trumpeting every female character as a "strong female lead," someone who's a pitch-perfect blend of tough resolve, intellect and conviction in a man's world.
It's not only grating, it's ... weak.
Theater professionals of color decry the Muny's casting, unwelcoming culture
St. Louis Public Radio: The boos launched by a group of protesters mid-show at the Muny two weeks ago are continuing to reverberate. Actors and directors of color in St. Louis say it’s time for theaters to stop casting white actors to portray people of color.
Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles
TechCrunch: For over 50 years, Disneyland and its sister parks have been a showcase for increasingly technically proficient versions of its “animatronic” characters. First pneumatic and hydraulic, and more recently fully electronic, these figures create a feeling of life and emotion inside rides and attractions, in shows and, increasingly, in interactive ways throughout the parks.
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