Washington Post Calls A Broadway Play About Pedophilia ‘Brilliant’

Mainstream publication The Washington Post gave praise to a new play called “Downstate” that attempts to whitewash pedophilia, calling the play “brilliant.”

The writer of the article, Peter Marks, also refers to the play as “scintillating” – which means witty; brilliantly clever, according to Dictionary.com – and was “directed with exceptional astuteness” by Pam MacKinnon. The playwright itself was written by Bruce Norris, a Pulitzer Prize winner for another play called Clybourne Park.

According to Post writer Marks, the play insinuates that “the punishments inflicted on some pedophiles are so harsh and unrelenting as to be inhumane;” adding that Norris “is questioning what degree of compassion should society fairly hold out to those who have served their time for sexual abuse, assault or rape.”

The general plotline of the play goes a bit like this, according to Marks:

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Living together in a group home in downstate Illinois, their movements monitored electronically (and their windows broken by irate vandals), four men of diverse age and backgrounds eke out marginal existences in menial jobs and managed routines. The house is like an island whose shores are washed with waves of contempt.

[…] The predators who’ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls. Felix (Eddie Torres) is a taciturn loner, keeping to himself in a screened-off alcove. Gio (Glenn Davis) is a smarmy operator with a job at a local office supply superstore. Dee (K. Todd Freeman) is a clearheaded ex-stage performer who is fiercely protective of the oldest resident, wheelchair-bound Fred (Francis Guinan), a onetime piano teacher of serene disposition.

There’s no sweeping under the threadbare rug in “Downstate” of the heinous offenses for which the men have been severely punished. We learn about what each of them has done, and we are in effect asked to judge for ourselves what magnitude of ongoing torment each deserves. It develops here as an agonizing moral question, one that our retributive correctional culture would rather not have to debate. And it is made even thornier by the drama’s most disagreeable character, a victim of Fred’s, now grown up and portrayed all too irritatingly well by Tim Hopper.

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Marks goes on to explain that one of the characters confined to a wheelchair lost his mobility after being mercilessly beaten in prison, as other characters recite their experiences.

Marks acknowledges that this play will certainly not be well-received by those that have “their own undiluted revulsion,” but for others “it will be a stunning demonstration of the power of narrative art to tackle a taboo, to compel us to look at a controversial topic from novel perspectives.”

In conclusion the Washington Post columnist concludes his review with, ““Downstate” is proof positive that you can love a play that turns you inside out.”

Mainstream media and other activists has been slowly but surely trying to promote and normalize pedophilia, such as USA Today attempting to whitewash it, or even the Minister of Equality in Spain claiming there is noting immoral about children having sex with grown adults.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Proverbs 28:4

I think this speaks for itself. These sickos are working overtime to make sure that pedophilia is normalize and accepted. You don’t have to like it or be one, but you must at least tolerate it just enough.

I suspect the mainstream will eventually go on an all-out campaign to force the masses to accept pedophilia.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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