The pig got up and slowly walked away

[sovay]

"Beneath that skin there's a meanness, a rancour, a mindless violence brewing . . . which for the first time in three hundred years we can neither take to war nor import to some remote colony, dressed up as civilisation, honest commerce, religion or any other kind of mumbo-jumbo. I doubt you'll ever again find so much impotent fury draining like pus into the glum business of daily existence. Or else into macabre fantasies of where to point the finger and who to smash, who to blame, how to legitimise a new order of hatred on the grounds that the old one's succumbing to violence and anarchy."
—David Mercer, Cousin Vladimir (1978)

Comments

[nineweaving]

Acu tetigisti. An envenomed needle.

Nine

[sovay]

Acu tetigisti. An envenomed needle.

I was re-reading the play for the first time since 2012 and thinking there are some zeitgeists that really don't need to come around again.

[dewline]

Yeah.

Guess that's one script, I'd better look up, hm?

[asakiyume]

Wow... apt

[sovay]

Guess that's one script, I'd better look up, hm?

I actually like it less then the other script in the book, the TV play Shooting the Chandelier (1977), but it has its points.

[sovay]

Wow... apt

It somewhat leapt out at me.

[minoanmiss]

*goosebumps*

[sovay]

*goosebumps*

I had last read the play in 2012; it had not chilled me so then.

[cmcmck]

This reminds me to re-read Brecht's 'the resistible rise of Arturo Ui'!

[sovay]

This reminds me to re-read Brecht's 'the resistible rise of Arturo Ui'!

I'm pretty sure that's had at least one production here in the last five years.