Fringing Reflections
Wednesday, I made it to Criteria at the Intermedia Arts building for the 7:00 showing. I met up with barondave, davidwilford, and Erin. Good show.
Then I got to believe 6 impossible things, although not before breakfast, at the 8:30 show of Wonderland, at the Rarig. The next show was also at the Rarig. Yay for staying in the same place! So I saw The Children of Lir, at 10:00.
I then decided that I had enough energy left to see another show, so I went to Cannibal, the Musical at the Mixed Blood. I found good parking, and pre-show “entertainment,” in the form of a car blocking part of the road in front of the theatre, surrounded by several cops. I never did find out the Real Story, but when I exited the theatre 110 mins later, the car was still there.
So barondave mentioned in his review of Cannibal that it was “sick, disgusting, violent, profane ” (but he loved it). Perhaps this is just a reflection of my jaded generation inundated with violent video games -- and regular viewers of South Park --, but I didn’t find it all that sick, disgusting, violent, or profane. Just a bit macabre, a bit absurb, a touch gross - it is about cannibalism, after all -- and very funny.
Then I got to believe 6 impossible things, although not before breakfast, at the 8:30 show of Wonderland, at the Rarig. The next show was also at the Rarig. Yay for staying in the same place! So I saw The Children of Lir, at 10:00.
I then decided that I had enough energy left to see another show, so I went to Cannibal, the Musical at the Mixed Blood. I found good parking, and pre-show “entertainment,” in the form of a car blocking part of the road in front of the theatre, surrounded by several cops. I never did find out the Real Story, but when I exited the theatre 110 mins later, the car was still there.
So barondave mentioned in his review of Cannibal that it was “sick, disgusting, violent, profane ” (but he loved it). Perhaps this is just a reflection of my jaded generation inundated with violent video games -- and regular viewers of South Park --, but I didn’t find it all that sick, disgusting, violent, or profane. Just a bit macabre, a bit absurb, a touch gross - it is about cannibalism, after all -- and very funny.