Comments on: The Sultan from Far Away http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/ The Blog Of An Open Source Librarian, In Which There Is No Shushing Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:01:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Keith http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-163 Keith Tue, 09 May 2006 00:46:57 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-163 Oh sure, Southern themed Shakespeare is a wide open, untapped interpritation. I'd like to see A Midsummer’s Night Dream at a Baptist revival in the mountains. Did you ever see Scotland PA? The Scotish Play set at a burger franchise in PA in the 70s, with Christopher Walken. Brilliant. Oh sure, Southern themed Shakespeare is a wide open, untapped interpritation. I’d like to see A Midsummer’s Night Dream at a Baptist revival in the mountains.

Did you ever see Scotland PA? The Scotish Play set at a burger franchise in PA in the 70s, with Christopher Walken. Brilliant.

]]> By: Bryan http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-161 Bryan Sun, 07 May 2006 21:33:14 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-161 Savannah is a pretty city with a lot of potential as a vacation destination. Tennessee Williams could have made "the Scottish play" more Georgian than <i>Gone With The Wind</i>. Imagine the scenes set in the Coca Cola board room or CNN instead of Scotland. <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> in a trailer park, <i>A Midsummer's Night Dream</i> at a Baptist revival in the mountains - the possibilities are endless. At the Stratford Festival in Britain they are showing a film version of <i>Hamlet</i> set in a Rom [Gypsy] encampment by a garbage dump. Savannah is a pretty city with a lot of potential as a vacation destination.

Tennessee Williams could have made “the Scottish play” more Georgian than Gone With The Wind.

Imagine the scenes set in the Coca Cola board room or CNN instead of Scotland.

Romeo and Juliet in a trailer park, A Midsummer’s Night Dream at a Baptist revival in the mountains - the possibilities are endless.

At the Stratford Festival in Britain they are showing a film version of Hamlet set in a Rom [Gypsy] encampment by a garbage dump.

]]> By: Keith http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-160 Keith Sat, 06 May 2006 23:55:38 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-160 Here in Savannah we have Saint Patrick's Day which is just a staggering drunken mess with a parade attached. otherwise it's just your usual foux cultural assides: Shkespeare in the park (Ever hear MacBeth with a southern Accent? Shudder) and the annual jazz festival, which makes Kenny g sound good. Here in Savannah we have Saint Patrick’s Day which is just a staggering drunken mess with a parade attached. otherwise it’s just your usual foux cultural assides: Shkespeare in the park (Ever hear MacBeth with a southern Accent? Shudder) and the annual jazz festival, which makes Kenny g sound good.

]]> By: Bryan http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-159 Bryan Sat, 06 May 2006 22:03:07 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-159 I saw the elephant and the space ship in the BBC earlier without any reference to what was going on other than a festival. As close as we have come are the painted cows, etc. that various cities have displayed. It's a shame because this is the type of thing that would attract people if you have a tourist economy. This is like the local "Bill Bowlegs" festival we have locally in June, except London shows professionalism and class, rather than simply fireworks and a parade. I saw the elephant and the space ship in the BBC earlier without any reference to what was going on other than a festival. As close as we have come are the painted cows, etc. that various cities have displayed.

It’s a shame because this is the type of thing that would attract people if you have a tourist economy. This is like the local “Bill Bowlegs” festival we have locally in June, except London shows professionalism and class, rather than simply fireworks and a parade.

]]> By: Keith http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-158 Keith Sat, 06 May 2006 19:58:26 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/05/06/the-sultan-from-far-away/#comment-158 Perhaps I'm simply being cynical but I don’t think we could have something so magical and whimsical preformed in the US without it either being commercialized to death (picture the mechanical elephant with Nascar-style logos all over it) or some fabricated stink made by religious conservatives because it doesn’t mention Jesus. Perhaps I’m simply being cynical but I don’t think we could have something so magical and whimsical preformed in the US without it either being commercialized to death (picture the mechanical elephant with Nascar-style logos all over it) or some fabricated stink made by religious conservatives because it doesn’t mention Jesus.

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