Points of view: theatre, comedy and news
Singing in a large group and hearing other people sing is famously a great time always, and one of the great things about protests is that it gives people the opportunity to participate in something that is usually reserved for theatre kids and religion. Now we have our Defying Gravitys and Hadestowns and Hamiltons and RENTs of course, but these songs have been thoroughly claimed by theatre kids.
Comedy streaming service Dropout today announced the return of the fan favorite interview improv series, Very Important People, for its third season.
In Awkward Productions’ Gwyneth Goes Skiing, Linus Karp and Joseph Martin very much live up to the tenor set by the infamous trial on which this show is based on. What we see over the course of this production is an amalgamation of all the comedy and storytelling techniques that they have been refining over... Continue Reading →
Following the shooting of Brian Thompson - CEO of UnitedHealthcare - there has been a lot of media discourse and speculation about the shooter, the private healthcare system in America and guns. This story really speaks to the sickness at the heart of America, which United Healthcare definitely wouldn’t cover. Since gun coverage exceeds that of healthcare, for years pundits have been propagating the need for just a few good guys with guns to end the cycle of violence facilitated by the Second Amendment, that they unconditionally support. To fully understand the deep cultural specificity of this story, we here at the Pepper&Salt Editorial Team have compiled a list to help our international readers navigate the complexities of American propaganda partisan media.
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