William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal de Cliff Cardinal

[@miroslavcervenka3283]

Saw it last night at Artspring. Brilliant piece of theatre. In fact, in the top three of my life. Bravo Cliff!

[@storypaths6]

Love this show

[@greg34999]

Saw the show at NYU’s Skirball Center. A bait-and-switch, Cliff Cardinal’s lecture has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” In fact, more than halfway through his lecture-the most accurate label I can think of for Cardinal’s piece-Cardinal admits that he’s never even read Shakespeare’s play. There is no play here, in fact. It’s a lecture on the ways in which Native Americans have been the victim of injustices visited upon them by European Americans for hundreds of years. It’s apparently his act of revenge on the presumably mostly European-American audience who came expecting one thing and got something altogether different. Clearly, Cardinal is not interested in improving the lives of the many Native Americans who continue to suffer on the land they and their ancestors have inhabited since before the first Europeans arrived. If he were, he would not have been dishonest about what his audience would be seeing. A lost opportunity to build on “allyship” between Native Americans and European Americans of good will, a concept for which the playwright seems to have contempt anyway.

[@stephanied2401]

Cry harder.

[@JuliaAvdienko]

Completely agree with previous comment. I am an immigrant and don’t give a shit about whose land was it before. It has nothing to do with me. Waste of time.

[@stephanied2401]

You like the country you're living in? The air, the land, the water? Where the fuck do you think that came from? Your current home is built on a genocide. If that doesn't haunt you, then you have no soul.