{"id":2150,"date":"2013-02-19T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:49:54","slug":"charles-mcnulty-on-depictions-of-violence-in-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/19\/charles-mcnulty-on-depictions-of-violence-in-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles McNulty on Depictions of Violence in Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/la-et-violence-lead-art-013.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2151\" height=\"300\" width=\"296\" title=\"la-et-violence-lead-art-013\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/la-et-violence-lead-art-013-296x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/la-et-violence-lead-art-013-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/la-et-violence-lead-art-013.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this compelling article, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Theater Critic McNulty discusses the controversial topic of violence in theater. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence in art? If gruesomeness is the criterion, much of Jacobean drama would have to be banned, including Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear,&#8221; with its graphic scene of Gloucester&#8217;s eyes being mercilessly plucked out. Some may believe they can identify pornography at a glance, but violence places keener demands on our sensibilities. Its artistic validity isn&#8217;t a function of how many liters of blood are spilled or how many limbs are dismembered. The question is one of gratuitousness. Or to put it another way: How does the brutality fit into a work&#8217;s larger vision?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/VtvNb6\">http:\/\/lat.ms\/VtvNb6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and since we are on the topic of theater, do not forget to look into the upcoming &#8220;Penelopiad&#8221; performance at the Boston Center for the Arts!! For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Zp8kvl\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Zp8kvl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this compelling article, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic McNulty discusses the controversial topic of violence in theater. Here is a sample: What is the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence in art? If gruesomeness is the criterion, much of Jacobean drama would have to be banned, including Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear,&#8221; with its graphic scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,244,477,3891,441,4854,4261],"tags":[44873,192,44809,5776,44874,44826,3413,31312,44875,4747,4891,44876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}