In today’s (7/1/11) Wall Street Journal (Page D4) is an article titled
Off With It’s Head, a promotional piece for the Shakespeare play “As
You Like It.”

As part of the Lincoln Center (New York City) Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company
will be putting on a production of “As You Like It” starting
Wednesday, July 6 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City for six
weeks of repertoire.

The article states that the Company will get a freshly killed rabbit
prior to each performance. Then, as part of this COMEDY, the rabbit
will be skinned and beheaded on stage!

Please contact the following:

(1) Call the Lincoln Center Administration Office at 212-875-5000 and
ask for Nigel Redden (Lincoln Center Festival director) at x:5127.

He may say that it isn’t his idea, it’s the Royal Shakespeare Company
that chose to do this, but don’t let him get away with that answer.
Redden hired the Company and he needs to feel the heat for allowing
this to (potentially) take place.

(2) You can also call the Lincoln Center Box Office at 212-721-6500
and let them know that you will NOT attend as long as animal cruelty
and having fun at an animal’s expense are part of the show.

Hopefully we can get this stopped before it even starts.

Janine
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Janine Motta
NJ House Rabbit Society
PO Box 259
Matawan, NJ 07747
www.NJHRS.com

RabbitWise asks all of you rabbit loving British to please complain to the Royal Shakespeare Company:

Talk to RSC
0844 800 1110

Write to RSC
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

On-line e-mail form at: http://www.rsc.org.uk/contact-us.aspx