Theater professor Harry McEnerny directs a scene from 'Rhinoceros.' Pho

In this administration’s eyes, those are the same thing.”Īfter a good five-second pause, he said “That’s why ‘Rhinoceros.’” “By doing that, they essentially, no, not essentially, actually,” McEnerny sighed and paused, “equated white supremacists with anti-racist protestors. administration two days to respond to the situation and in a public statement, President Donald Trump said there was wrong committed on both sides. The event resulted in the murder of two Virginia State Troopers and a woman from Ohio, a peaceful protestor. “It’s not like the KKK anymore, this is all of a sudden wide open out in the public,” he said. The news reported that white supremacist groups went to Charlottesville to protest the decision to remove the monument, without masks and carrying torches. “White supremacist groups didn’t like that decision because they felt it as an attack on their heritage,” McEnerny said, followed by a pause. But in Charlottesville, the town council voted to remove a statue of Robert E. In Baltimore, they were taken down within minutes overnight there one day and gone the next. The monuments were taken down at night, in the cover of darkness. It’s a big deal nationally, that monuments are being taken down monuments to civil war heroes, not my word,” he said. “So Charlottesville, um, it’s a… it’s a big deal in the south. McEnerny said the events in Charlottesville made him go “uhh?!” Then something happened,” McEnerny said with a look of seriousness. “We decided as a group that this what were going to do. For the 2017-2018 season, Castleton was going to produce the shows “Moon Over Buffalo,” The Liar,” and “Guys and Dolls.” He likes the play, but that’s not the only reason Castleton Threatre Arts professor Harry McEnerny decided to change plans and direct Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros,” an absurdist play from the WWII era, this past September at Castleton University.Īs a group, while considering student feedback, theatre arts faculty get together every spring to discuss and announce the upcoming season.

It was the end of the Spring 2017 semester and the Castleton Theatre Department’s 2017-18 season was all selected, scheduled and announced.

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