Friday, October 6, 2006

Hell House in New York Here's a bit of irony: a secular theatre company in New York has bought the rights, or the "kit" to produce a version of "Hell House" for the New York theatre going audience. "Hell House" is the evangelical Halloween show that depicts various sins and their consequences in graphic "scare-the-devil-out-of-you" style. The NY Times article (The Road to Hell (and Maybe Heaven) Detours Through Brooklyn) outlines the obvious ironies involved in the Les Freres Corbusier's Artistic Director's desire to critique evangelicalism by sincerely producing one of that world's more popular propaganda pieces. How strange it must be to produce a play, or what might be more properly called a theatre experience, in faithful representation of the author's wishes, in order to get a result exactly opposite of what the writer intended. I love this phrase the writer uses..."a truly gymnastic display of irony." Postmodern indeed 12:49:03 PM    comment []

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