Some fine acting in Wilde s fine play but also some stupidities. Ed Fox and son Freddie are excellent.the rest of the cast is excellent with two glaring exceptions.First they cast a young black girl as the SISTER of Lord Chiltern !! She is just a so so actress,not that engaging or beautiful and a complete distraction as it is absurd that the lord has a black sister!! that Lord Goring loves her is not believable.Stupid miscasting for what? diversity? Even more absurd is having Mrs. Cheveley being Lord Goring ex lover!! she looked 55 while he was 24!!! Actually her actual age is 60! and while he is 29 ,i think ,he does look younger like 24.Absurd miscasting. Now, she acted very well but? the age difference made their scenes together not believable.
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The Unbearable Stupidity of Wokes
AttyTude030 April 2022
In this version of An Ideal Husband, Lady Mabel Chiltern, Lord Chiltern's sister, is played by a black actress - curiously enough, Lord Chiltern is played by a white guy - And in another modern production of Lady Windemere's Fan - presumably by the same company - a certain Lord Lorton is also played by a black actor.
And why not. After all, we all know that in Victorian England a good number of British aristocrats were of pure African extraction. I'm being sarcastic of course.
I don't know what white wokes - pardon the redundancy - think they achieve by all this diverse silliness. Their obsession with diversity and political correctness has reached a degree of stupidity that is excessive even by woke standards.
Personally, I think it's condescending and self-congratulating. A sick form of reverse colonialism, if you will. Imagine if a white actor were cast to play a famous black person. Say Shaka Zulu, or Mandela. The caterwauling from the woke contingency would be louder than the Final Trumpet. And mind you, they would be right, for once.
Oh, well. I suppose if God allows people like wokes exist in this world it means they are necessary, too. If only for comic relief.
And why not. After all, we all know that in Victorian England a good number of British aristocrats were of pure African extraction. I'm being sarcastic of course.
I don't know what white wokes - pardon the redundancy - think they achieve by all this diverse silliness. Their obsession with diversity and political correctness has reached a degree of stupidity that is excessive even by woke standards.
Personally, I think it's condescending and self-congratulating. A sick form of reverse colonialism, if you will. Imagine if a white actor were cast to play a famous black person. Say Shaka Zulu, or Mandela. The caterwauling from the woke contingency would be louder than the Final Trumpet. And mind you, they would be right, for once.
Oh, well. I suppose if God allows people like wokes exist in this world it means they are necessary, too. If only for comic relief.
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