Holly and Cassie: This Means You!
May. 26th, 2005 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malsperanzaEveryone in or near New York: RUN, don't walk, to the Little Schubert Theater this weekend to see Shockheaded Peter before it closes on the 29th. Best thing evar.
http://www.shockheadedpeternyc.com/
Holly: If anything will get your mind off of worrying (quite unnecessarily) about Valiant, this is it.
An amazing combination of Edward Gorey, Brecht, Sweeney Todd, Terry Gilliam, commedia dell'arte (with a tip of the hat to Julie Taymor), Ozzie Osborne, Edward Scissorhands, Dickens, and every nightmare you ever had as a child, and of course Weird Victorian German Children's Stories.
The dark underbelly of the Nutcracker Suite.
Do not take very small children unless you hate them and want to make them wretched. Which the Master of Ceremonies reminds us is a perfectly reasonable pastime for adults.
I come from a German family. My otherwise respectable and fairly normal grandparents thought Struwwelpeter and Max & Moritz were the funniest things ever written. Especially the little boy who would not stop sucking his thumbs, and so got them cut off with a scissors by the local tailor (klipp! klapp!). "I knew it!" exclaims Mum when she gets home.
Max and Moritz are two charming little boys who put cockroaches in their schoolmaster's bed, burn his house down, and eventually are ground up into flour by the miller, and eaten by ducks. Yep. With illustrations: http://www.fln.vcu.edu//mm/mmmenu.html
Anyone who wonders how the enlightened German people, heirs of Schiller, Goethe, Beethoven, and Mozart, came to produce Nazism has only to explore the books that generation read as children.
And don't get me started on the Brothers Grimm.
http://www.shockheadedpeternyc.com/
Holly: If anything will get your mind off of worrying (quite unnecessarily) about Valiant, this is it.
An amazing combination of Edward Gorey, Brecht, Sweeney Todd, Terry Gilliam, commedia dell'arte (with a tip of the hat to Julie Taymor), Ozzie Osborne, Edward Scissorhands, Dickens, and every nightmare you ever had as a child, and of course Weird Victorian German Children's Stories.
The dark underbelly of the Nutcracker Suite.
Do not take very small children unless you hate them and want to make them wretched. Which the Master of Ceremonies reminds us is a perfectly reasonable pastime for adults.
I come from a German family. My otherwise respectable and fairly normal grandparents thought Struwwelpeter and Max & Moritz were the funniest things ever written. Especially the little boy who would not stop sucking his thumbs, and so got them cut off with a scissors by the local tailor (klipp! klapp!). "I knew it!" exclaims Mum when she gets home.
Max and Moritz are two charming little boys who put cockroaches in their schoolmaster's bed, burn his house down, and eventually are ground up into flour by the miller, and eaten by ducks. Yep. With illustrations: http://www.fln.vcu.edu//mm/mmmenu.html
Anyone who wonders how the enlightened German people, heirs of Schiller, Goethe, Beethoven, and Mozart, came to produce Nazism has only to explore the books that generation read as children.
And don't get me started on the Brothers Grimm.
