Comments on: Factory Theatre boycott participants issue Public Statement on exit of Ken Gass from “debacle”

By: 2012 Villain: Factory Theatre’s Board of Directors | NoIndex | Torontoist

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:52:05 +0000

[…] two playwrights withdrawing their productions; a petition signed by more than 4,000 people; and a boycott (which—disclosure—I have endorsed) organized by some of Canada’s most prominent theatre […]

By: T. Taitt

T. Taitt — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:44:34 +0000

Wow. As I was reading this and got to the term “black asterisk”, my first thought was “Huh?” What about the point that was trying to be made couldn’t simply have been made with the word “asterisk”? I was quite taken aback. And then I went on to read about the horrible “black mark” that needs to be expunged. Again, what part of “Only then can this mark be expunged from the Factory’s inspiring history” would have been unclear?

At the time that I had these thoughts, I had not read the other comment under this post. However I certainly was not surprised to see that the phrases used had struck someone else in the same way. We as theatre artists live by the word. We have an intimacy relationship with the power of language. It blows my mind that as enlightened and evolved as the community likes to consider itself, more care could not have been taken to contemplate the weight of your descriptors. It may seem incidental and innocuous. It’s not.

By: Philip Akin

Philip Akin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:15:43 +0000

“black asterisk” “black mark” ?????????????? Really? Cause we all know that in this society being black is synonymous with being bad. Some days I despair and then I just move on.

Philip