Snippitts of Illusions

the lieutenant assassin of judas hamlet

yesterday, left work early.
this was for two reasons. the first was to get some food, which i hadn't eaten since the orange earlier in the day, the second was to go to Richies senior project.
it was brilliant.
the scenes and monologues he had chosen were quite frankly great ones.
from John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald in the play Assassins, (one of my favorite scenes actually) to Hamlets monologue (yeah, i know there's alot of them from that play) in Hamlet, to a small extract from the play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, it was quite enjoyable.
now i'm intrigued, i want to read that last play.
having seen the two scenes from it, both powerful in their own way, my insterest was piqued.
particularly by the subject matter: why was Judas Iscariot condemned to hell?
it's a question posed (quite obviously just from the scenes we've seen) with some intriguing answers.
i went online and read several reviews about the play last night.
it sounds absolutely intense.
i hope to be able to read through Judas Iscariot in the near future, it sounds enthralling, and intriguing. And the fact that all i can do is ponder it today is a good sign for the play itself.

on another note... not one far off though... The Lieutenant of Inishmore, had only read bits and pieces till just the other day, now having read it all the way through (some parts two or three times because they were just that funny) i really want to see it done.
i've worked out some of the technical stuff in my noggin (trapping some of the funiture so the body parts are just on the other side of the trap doors).
alot of prop work to that play, and the logistics of the combat would be tough too.
(four people getting shot with large caliber hand guns isn't easy to work out to make realistic and safe).
the biggest opstical however, in my mind is the cat at the very end (well that in the one with the shoe polish) it really does need to be there (what kind of assholes are these playwrights to put live animals in their scripts.... gives me an idea)...
oh well, something fun to think about during the day when things get dull.

kevin, thanks for posting those pics.
the sidestreets and byways are fasinating to me, and you're right, i do need to make travel a bigger part of my life.
sadly for the next year or so i'm going to be relatively stationary, but after that...

nick.
damn man, i wish i lived smidge closer and had a little more time on my hands, i would come and help you out some. you sound like you could use the help.

bruce... have fun in colorado.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 11:11 AM