Repeating Jenna's post here:
Since we just talked about Uncle Tom's Cabin, I thought I'd bring up "The Small House of Uncle Thomas" from Rodger and Hammerstein's "The King and I"
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ekNKr8otk&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvbE-Ztwz5I&feature=related
It's about 14 minutes long in total, but I highly recommend it.
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what's particularly cool about this play-within-the-play is that the actors are teaching their English audiences something about representational practice in the Thai tradition--'we portray evil characters with big scary masks.' I haven't seen this since I was a kid, but doesn't this play also serve to help make the king into a more democratic, egalitarian guy? so UTC here is supposed to spread American values?
ReplyDeleteYep, the king learns to be more kind and less authoritarian through his interactions with Anna. Also, the narrator woman is a slave whose lover was taken away by the king. So she's using this play to make about a point about the evils of slavery. Though in the book she tries to run away with her lover and is killed for it.
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