The importance of not talking about it

[smokingboot]

I 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!

Comments

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

that would be fab. Completely hatstand (espeically with the jfs addition), but fab nonetheless.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

The jfs addition is perfect. We could end the run by setting fire to the booth throwing tomato sauce over the audience and running away, possibly quite far...

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Party poppers sound just the right size for puppet molotovs.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I fear your ingenuity. The more ideas you give me, the more compelled I feel to make this happen!