NYTIMES STILL PROMOTING GRAMSCIAN AGENDA

IN TODAY'S NYTIMES, THE THEATER SECTION HAD THESE TWO ARTICLES:

FIRST THIS ONE:

Maximum Security and a Starring Role

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Published: July 22, 2009

VOLTERRA, ITALY — As a sound-system blasted a cha-cha-cha, the men began to dance. Wearing outlandish costumes with oversize hats and wigs, and boots with 15-centimeter heels from a Milanese store that caters to drag queens, they strutted and pranced.

But this was no ordinary cast of actors. The performers were convicted criminals serving anywhere from five years to life in a maximum-security prison for crimes as varied as armed robbery and murder.

“Theater is surreal, it’s all fiction,” one inmate, Dorjan Cenka, originally from Albania, later mused. Dressed completely in white with heart-shaped red lips, Mr. Cenka was trying on his costume for the latest show by the Compagnia della Fortezza, the theater company named after the Medici-era fortress that houses the Volterra jail where the convicts are imprisoned. It would be his first time on stage and he confessed to being a little nervous. “I’m shy, I don’t like to speak in public,” he said. With a sway of his hips, he swished his Marie Antoinette-era skirt, the powdered wig on his head tottering. “I’m doing this to get over my resistance.”

...Of Italy's 205 prisons, about half have theater programs. But none is as renowned as the Compagnia della Fortezza, which over the years has won some of Italy's most prestigious theater awards.

AND THEN THIS:

Some Village Folkways: Incest, Murder, Adultery

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Published: July 23, 2009

The naked cowboy with the sequined phallus would be a startling apparition just about anywhere, with the possible exception of a gay strip club, but he seems a particularly incongruous vision in the humble Hungarian village of “Peasant Opera,” the quirky musical melodrama that opened Tuesday night at the Clark Studio Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

Written and directed by Bela Pinter, a leading figure from the theater world of his native Budapest, with music by Benedek Darvas, the show is a ribald sendup of opera that blends the earthy sounds of Hungarian folk songs with the ordered conventions of baroque music, to strange but surprisingly satisfying effect.

..."Mr. Pinter juxtaposes celebratory songs in a traditional folk idiom with bluntly vulgar humor that reveals the private pathologies behind the pretty myths of bucolic village life."

THE NYTIMES IS NOT REPORTING. THEY ARE PROMOTING A GRAMSCIAN AGENDA.

THESE PLAYS ARE ABOUT ATTACKING TRADITIONAL BOURGEOIS VALUES.

(MORE HERE.)

THESE GRAMSCIAN ATTACKS ARE MEANT TO DESTROY TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS SO THAT THE STATE MAY TAKE OVER.

POSTMODERN LEFTISTS WANT THE STATE TO BE EXTREMELY PATERNAL (TAKE CARE OF THEM IN ALL REGARDS) - AND EXTREMELY SEXUALLY PERMISSIVE.