![]() I enjoy talking to people in person and I frequently engage people in conversations on the phone (usually from my landline). Texting, however, is not my favored form of communication. Email has become a necessary in my profession, however, I still do not personally check email throughout the day, I am in the lucky position of having a life and personal assistant who can check email for me. I do believe that in the world we live in, a certain amount of screen dependency is required, we all depend on screens in one way or another. People can become physically dependent on their phone.Īs a radiologist I have been staring at screens for the past 40 years, long before every other job required sitting down and staring at screens. It does not take an ingestion of chemicals to acquire a dependency. She began to have physical withdrawal symptoms after not having her phone for 24 hours. In high school my daughter’s cellphone was taken away by the teacher for a day. The human body was not meant to sit or stand in front of screens all day. Humans were meant to traverse the planes and forests, hunt game, raise their own food and be outdoors. Looking at screens all day, be it computer, cell phone and tablet has become the norm. ![]() He kind of winked at me and said “Can you believe this?” We both acknowledge this was NOT normal human behavior. I was standing at the end of the Southwest Airlines counter with a cowboy and we were looking at every single person in line, they all were staring down at their cellphones. ![]() It was in 2010 while at the airport in Baltimore, Maryland when I became aware of the widespread iPhone use. Mankind just blindly follows the latest updates and allows electronic devices to completely control their lives and willingly become dependent on them for everything. People have become totally dependent on all their electronic devices, from cell phones to communicate, to “Alexa” and “Siri” to manage their lighting, air conditioning and even appliances. Read mostly around a table in an unremarkable conference room, “A Public Reading” is relevant and engaging despite this unusual construction and abrupt, staccato dialogue full of unfinished thoughts and sentences.Today, cell phones and electronics completely dominate our world. The play is presented as a screenplay written by Disney and read by actors playing Walt, his daughter, son-in-law and Roy (the real Disney died of lung cancer in 1966). He wants to build not another Fantasyland but a real city, a dream that turns out to be more difficult than he imagined. Instead, as imagined by the terrific Peter Galman, he’s a megalomaniacal businessman determined to leave a serious legacy, something more substantive than cartoon mice and ducks (though he’s swaggeringly proud of them, too). Whiting Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath, who grew up in central Florida, uses dark comedy and a highly stylized structure to mine the depths of a Disney who isn’t exactly a bright-eyed, kid-friendly Uncle Walt. “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney” is a stark and riveting examination of a different set of Disney values: ego, empire building and the quest for immortality. The latest production by Thinking Cap Theatre is all about Disney, but don’t expect singing animals or mermaids or princesses. Walt Disney (Peter Galman) confronts his daughter (Gretchen Porro) whil his brother Roy (Jim Gibbons) looks on. ![]()
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