Forging New Ground

[pargoletta]

Courtesy of the 64th annual Latke-Hamantash Debate.

Prior to tonight, I had never ever heard the St. Crispin's Day Speech ("We few, we happy few") from Henry V used as a rhetorical device in defense of a Jewish holiday treat.

Now I have. And there were ballerinas, too.

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[hyarrowen]

That noise you heard? Was my brain breaking. In several places.

[pargoletta]

Oh, the best part was that, by that point in the speech, it wasn't even clear whether Henry was rallying the troops in support of the latke or the hamantash.

The "troops" in this case being two a capella groups, four tap dancers, Odile and the swans from Swan Lake, and seventeen miscellaneous actors. This is what happens when you get a shiksa theater professor who prefers the latke and ask her to defend the hamantash.

*rereads that* Um, yeah. That's kind of what tends to happen at the Latke-Hamantash Debate. It's a weird U of C thing.

[hyarrowen]

Now I'm imagining Branagh in a tutu. Which is a not unpleasant mental picture, actually.

[shayheyred]

!!!!
Oh, how I wish I'd heard that.

[pargoletta]

It was pretty good, though I will always remember fondly Dean Alison Boden's exigesis on the Book of Esther from a few years ago. On the other hand (and in the Latke-Hamantash Debate, there's always another hand), this debate also featured, in addition to the cast I mentioned above to hyarrowen, a chemist with potato batteries, hamantash batteries, and a potato cannon.

Good times.