Pro wrestling is an art form, ballet for beefy guys,morality plays for our time.
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Note: That’s not your doorbell, it’s an instrument on the soundtrack.
A Star Wars shadow puppet play (wayang kulit), explained by Malaysia’s Pak Daim, a tok dalang (master puppeteer). The Wayang Kulit tradition has entertained audiences in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia with dramas bringing folktales, Hindu mythology, and Balinese sagas to life. Pak Daim’s company and artist Tintoy Chuo created a shadow drama of the Star Wars saga using traditional techniques and instruments, with added special effects and sounds. There are shadow puppets of Stormtroopers, C-3PO, R2-D2, Princess Leia, and Darth, even an Imperial Star Destroyer.
Video by Singapore’s TODAYonline.
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“Last December, the town council in Camarillo, a small town in southern California, a man called Prince Jordan Tyson stood up and delivered a three minute speech as a “concerned citizen” about a planned construction project before the council.
Tyson is not a concerned citizen of Camarillo: he’s a struggling actor from Beverly Hills, who was paid $100 to deliver a scripted position from the podium while misrepresenting himself as a local, sincere citizen.
Tyson worked for Adam Swart, a recent UCLA grad, who runs a company called ‘Crowds on Demand,’ which hires actors to attend politicians’ campaign meetings, and to deliver scripted dialog in the guise of concerned citizens. Swart says that he has been paid by ‘dozens of campaigns for state officials, and 2016 presidential candidates’ whom he won’t name, because if he did ‘nobody would hire us.'”
–“‘Citizens’ who speak at town meetings are hired, scripted actors,” Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
More:
“Concerned Citizens Turn Out to Be Political Theater,” Marin Austin, NBC Los Angeles
“There’s a Real Company That Hires Fake Supporters to Cheer on Political Candidates,” Chris Smith, BGR
“1-800-HIRE-A-CROWD,” Dan Schneider, The Atlantic
“The lucrative business of crowds for hire,” Kieron Monks, CNN
“Company with crowds for hire sees opportunity in politics,” CBS News
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“It’s perhaps the most famous scene in all of English literature: Juliet stands on her balcony with Romeo in the garden below, star-crossed lovers meeting by moonlight. Colloquially known as ‘the balcony scene,’ it contains Romeo and Juliet’s most quoted lines, which are so closely associated with the balcony that they’re frequently repeated (often incorrectly and in a hammy style) by non-actors who seize upon any real-life balcony, porch, landing, or veranda to reenact the moment. There’s only one problem: There is no balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.
The word ‘balcony’ never appears in Shakespeare’s play. In fact, Shakespeare didn’t know what a balcony was. Not only was there no balcony in Romeo and Juliet, there was no balcony in all of Shakespeare’s England.”
— “Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony,” Lois Leveen, The Atlantic
Briefly, some sixty years after the Bard’s death, playwright Thomas Otway cribbed some lines from the R&J garden window scene (Act II Scene 2) in his drama of ancient Rome and introduced a balcony to the set. When David Garrick revived Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy in 1748 he put Otway’s balcony in the scene, and it’s became emblematic of the play, and of Shakespeare.
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