The Real Thing, and Other Impieties
October 30
October 30 at 8:00 PM
General: $10.00
Student/Senior: $8.00
On the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen shares petits fours with a certain stateless bear; Trump’s defense lawyer offers opening statements assuring the jury that his client is human; in the depths of the Antarctic, young love kindles over exhumations and Coke; on the run from the Evil Queen, Snow White finds herself in the cottage of the Seven Deadly Sins; a guide to penitence is mistranslated with fateful consequences; a precocious young artist meets the Emperor; a Russian warship does what it’s told: in these and other vignettes, Andrew Loman grapples with the banalities of mass culture and the nightmare of history with his usual restraint and discernment.
Content warning: the subject matter is on occasion irritatingly obscure; the language is often on the salty side; the stories routinely resolve themselves in deplorable bursts of violence. It’s implied that Eric Trump hatched from the egg of an echidna. A pastiche of late-phase James wrecks the whole thing.