Because, when studying Shakespeare’s Macbeth, we don’t need no stinkin’ words!
Via Free Beacon:
The federal government has invested nearly $100,000 to bring Shakespeare to the stage—only without the legendary playwright’s words.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and its state agency the Virginia Commission for the Arts has funded numerous shows from the Crystal City-based Synetic Theater….
The Wall Street Journal bemoaned the dumbing down of Shakespeare, noting Shakespeare’s plays “without puns is like French cooking without butter,” in a recent review of Synetic’s adaptations.
“The latest Shakespeare fashion, at least in the Washington area, is to invite people to a feast of language and serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins—with a few gyrations thrown in for dessert,” James Bovard wrote….
“The fact that many Washingtonians consider Silent Shakespeare an improvement rather than an oxymoron reflects unkindly on the capital’s cultural pretensions,” he added. “But perhaps we should not be surprised that the city that pioneered obfuscation is now exalting expunging English altogether.”
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What’s the point of words other than those used for deceit and obfuscation.
“We didn’t need dialogue, we had faces.”
Of course, Sunset Boulevard, was a talkie.
Aside; Gloria Swanson chaired the 1980 NY chapter of, Seniors for Reagan-Bush.
Me thinks that living in the cesspool long enough gets you to like crap sandwiches.