$30,000 of our tax dollars for actors to run around a field with some sheep and a dog.
The NYT says “Ann Carlson is a conceptual artist who uses gesture, text, and humor to break your heart.”
Well, it is heartbreaking, when you think what $30K could have done to help our veterans.
Via Free Beacon.
“Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials,” writes Elsie Management, a firm that promotes the performing arts. “The work is performed by four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field.”
“Doggie Hamlet recalls the bucolic impression of a landscape painting or a 3D pastoral poem,” the group said. “The sheep, the dogs, the human performers, and the earth’s surface are at once performing as themselves and as living symbols in this work.”
“Through story, motion, site and stillness Doggie Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, and loss, and is a beautiful and dreamlike spectacle weaving instinct, mystery, and movement into an unusual performance event,” the group concluded….
It wasn’t a total waste. The NY Times theater critic gave the dog a great review.
When Yorick makes his appearance, does the cast sing; With a knick-knack paddywhack, give the dog a bone, this old man came rolling home.
“The work is performed by four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field.”
An American Sign Language interpreter? Good for Thamsanqa Jantjie, he finally got a new gig.
posted 12/21 543pm Texas[Read My Lips]Time
Just for reference, the idea of adapting Shakespeare for dogs isn’t even original.
By way of contrast, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeath is not actually about dogs.