The importance of not talking about it
Sep. 28th, 2005 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootI have done something important today. I don't want to talk or think about it. So I pull out something else I care about, important, but not personal.
Those who know me know I am a bear of very little brain, but the occasional fixation, and that the fate of the 2004 play 'Behzti' has long rankled with me. Here's what it was about:
http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/core_asp/showpage.asp?theid=161
The last part of the blurb asks if, in a community where public honour is everything, honesty has a place. The threats of violence that effectively blackmailed the Rep into abandoning the play give us the answer.
Now, lj dear, do you know what this foolish boot would like to do, given time, money and skill?
I would really like to put that play on as a puppet show.
Can you imagine it? just some old seaside punch and judy booth parked on a brum street. People would go by, some might stop, but many wouldn't; toys telling a terrible story to no-one. And if there is no audience, the empty air can hear the tale; and if it is abysmal to force a human tragedy into mere puppetry, it only foreshadows the greater crime of forcing people to be puppets themselves.
Yes. It's my idea and I demand an Arts Council Grant!
Only two minor problems: 1) I have no aptitude for puppetry whatsoever, and 2) I haven't read the play. For all I know it might be well meaning poo.
Another great nonsense chucked out onto lj and forgotten!
Those who know me know I am a bear of very little brain, but the occasional fixation, and that the fate of the 2004 play 'Behzti' has long rankled with me. Here's what it was about:
http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/core_asp/showpage.asp?theid=161
The last part of the blurb asks if, in a community where public honour is everything, honesty has a place. The threats of violence that effectively blackmailed the Rep into abandoning the play give us the answer.
Now, lj dear, do you know what this foolish boot would like to do, given time, money and skill?
I would really like to put that play on as a puppet show.
Can you imagine it? just some old seaside punch and judy booth parked on a brum street. People would go by, some might stop, but many wouldn't; toys telling a terrible story to no-one. And if there is no audience, the empty air can hear the tale; and if it is abysmal to force a human tragedy into mere puppetry, it only foreshadows the greater crime of forcing people to be puppets themselves.
Yes. It's my idea and I demand an Arts Council Grant!
Only two minor problems: 1) I have no aptitude for puppetry whatsoever, and 2) I haven't read the play. For all I know it might be well meaning poo.
Another great nonsense chucked out onto lj and forgotten!
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Date: 2005-09-28 11:34 am (UTC)I'm tempted to own a copy for the same reason I have a copy of the Satanic Verses - even if I don't particularly agree with the contents, it's a way of showing support for the right of the author to speak.
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Date: 2005-09-28 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 12:01 pm (UTC)I tried reading Grimus, which is his first novel.
The most charitable thing I can say is that at least it's short.
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Date: 2005-09-28 03:54 pm (UTC)Out of interest, is The Satanic Verses actually a good read?
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Date: 2005-09-28 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 10:43 pm (UTC)The best bits were the rants pencilled in to the margin by the muslim I borrowed it from at school. I may have only managed a few chapters. The only thing I can remember is how bad it was and "Heed your own words, Mr. Rushdie!" scribbled into the text ...
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Date: 2005-09-29 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 07:33 am (UTC)