Saturday, October 15, 2005

Will he do this to Princess Di?

Tonight I saw the Andrew Webber play ‘Evita’ based on the life of Eva Peron of Argentina. I must be one of the last play lovers in the world to see it! Did not enjoy the play much as the actress who played Evita was ‘screeching’ the lovely songs by Tim Price and Andrew Webber. But more than singing what bothered me was the way Eva Peron was portrayed in the play. Here is a lady who did a lot to improve the plight of ‘descamisados’ (shirtless poor) in Argentina, and is revered as a saint there. But Webber saw her as a slut who slept her way to the top, and did everything for power and money. He obviously did not care about the feelings of the millions in Argentina when he wrote the play. I wonder how he would like if some Argentinean wrote a play about Princess Di, portraying her as an unstable woman who slept around with Pakistani’s and Arabs? Who knows? He may not mind it as long as the music is good!

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