Monday, September 22, 2008

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While we can sympathize with the discomfort that Nashua Alderman-at-Large Fred Teeboom feels at the sight of the swastika, his argument to have a promotional poster for the play 'Taking Sides' removed or altered from buildings both public and private falls short in reasoning and goes too far in ascribing malicious motives to the play's producers.
The play, which is being produced by Yellow Taxi Productions, is about a U.S. postwar investigation of whether German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler served with the Nazi regime.
The poster at issue shows a conductor in silhouette with a Nazi flag hanging in the corner of the frame to his left. The swastika is visible in the flag. The poster also features the name of the play and text describing the play.
Teeboom feels that the swastika's visibility in the poster is exploitive.
'The poster was designed with the swastika to sell tickets, in offensively poor taste,' Teeboom argues. 'Without context, the poster appears to announce a Nazi meeting.'
There are two problems with this argument




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