“My spirits both raised and fell when I found out about his. Carter found out about Jefferson’s in 1988, and Dickens’ when he moved to Los Angeles in 1996, and then Tolstoy’s in 1998. It feels like there is a distinction there worth noting.”Īll three men in Discord are linked by having written gospels. “What we intend is to get to something we consider important and then something like a fire occurs. “We never intend to have train-wrecks or fires,” said Carter. Having on-screen fires like that is essential to the show, I suggest. If he doesn’t get to talk he’s a First Amendment martyr, if he does then he gets judged on the merits of what he’s saying.” Yiannopoulos said at the time, “I think women and girls should be protected from having men who are confused about their sexual identities from their bathrooms.” Maher responded, “That’s not unreasonable.”Ĭarter could not recall that exchange when we spoke, but said of Yiannopoulos: “When liberals talk, he listens politely. He has booked controversy magnets like Milo Yiannopoulos, with both men criticized over comments made about transgender people in a show in February. He has seen famous politicians, used to pontificating on Face The Nation or Meet The Press freak out when an audience member laughs. He says he needs to make sure they will be able to handle the speed and occasional ferocity of the debate on Real Time. They cannot leave the room until, it seems, they have collectively written a gospel.Īnother influence for the play, presented by Primary Stages and playing at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre, is that Carter is executive producer of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, where round-table argument and debate is the staple diet, just as it is in the play.įor his day job, Carter, 65, watches prospective guests for months, fielding questions and defending their opinions. And so it is that the three famous men featured in his play The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord meet in a surreal ante-room in heaven, alive to each other if dead to the world. Thirty years ago, Scott Carter came close to dying after an asthma attack.
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