http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:39:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-21850 Ross the audio book worm Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:51:11 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-21850 The Great Gatsby is now so popular that several narrators have produced audio books of this fine work. This should help the students, especially those with reading difficulties. The Great Gatsby is now so popular that several narrators have produced audio books of this fine work. This should help the students, especially those with reading difficulties.

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-465 Shawn Chen Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:57:41 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-465 The interview between Shepherd and Collins highlights exactly the racial isues which have always puzzled me when offering possible interpretations to my high school students. Carlyle V. Thompson, an assistant professor in the department of literature, languages and philosophy at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y. helped resolve my confusion. If Gastby is a light skinned black man passing for white, it is Daisy's supreme revenge in her on-going frustration with her racist philandering husband to have an affair with him. Tom would be hard pressed to get worked up over Daisy's dallying with any man in their social strata, but her affair with Gatsby galls him because he is such a "prig". The interview between Shepherd and Collins highlights exactly the racial isues which have always puzzled me when offering possible interpretations to my high school students. Carlyle V. Thompson, an assistant professor in the department of literature, languages and philosophy at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y. helped resolve my confusion. If Gastby is a light skinned black man passing for white, it is Daisy’s supreme revenge in her on-going frustration with her racist philandering husband to have an affair with him. Tom would be hard pressed to get worked up over Daisy’s dallying with any man in their social strata, but her affair with Gatsby galls him because he is such a “prig”.

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-328 Justin Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:32:34 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2006/08/02/radical-commitment-and-the-great-gatsby/#comment-328 Minneapolis could certainly do without one of these two productions, having had the misfortune of attending the Guthrie's community college level effort. Not since my niece's third grade production of "Aunt Min and Uncle Charlie in the Strawberry Patch" have I seen a more unconvincing pile of acting. I can't imagine so many people could be this untalented so am going to play pin the tail on the director. I honestly thought the actor playing Carraway must be a foreign exchange student because of the way he over pronounced every word. This is why they call it regional theater! Save your money, read the book and imagine your own staged version. It will be an improvement. Minneapolis could certainly do without one of these two productions, having had the misfortune of attending the Guthrie’s community college level effort. Not since my niece’s third grade production of “Aunt Min and Uncle Charlie in the Strawberry Patch” have I seen a more unconvincing pile of acting. I can’t imagine so many people could be this untalented so am going to play pin the tail on the director. I honestly thought the actor playing Carraway must be a foreign exchange student because of the way he over pronounced every word. This is why they call it regional theater! Save your money, read the book and imagine your own staged version. It will be an improvement.

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