[pagan-magik] Re: [BRDL] G8 - Macbeth ritual

[Niall Leighton]

This would be well fun, wouldn't it?

I'm going to have to chase up the Scottish group again.

What had occurred to me is that I saw a play at the Fringe last year where 
they'd (heavily) rewritten Richard III as a polemic on gender politics "now 
is the winter of our discontent...". I wonder if the same potential exists 
here.

Birnam Wood is a haven for rare species. Leave the trees alone, please. I 
won't tell anyone if someone nicks them from some Forest Enterprise 
monoculture sitka spruce plantation, but will be most miffed if we lose 
trees from Birnam Wood.

Cheers

Niall
At 10:46 18/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi Sylvia,
>
>the Macbeth theme is definitely floating about in G8 discussions. I've
>already heard rumours that the Birnam Wood may march again...
>
>At 07:06 PM 17/04/05 +0000, you wrote:
> >Any more ideas?
>
>Perhaps adapt Lady Macbeth as the G8:
>
>"Out, damned spot! Out I say!...What need we fear who knows it, when none
>can call our power to account?...Here's the smell of the blood still: all
>the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
>Act v. Sc. i
>
>Witches, morally corrupt leaders, murder  illusion and deceit - The play is
>almost too perfect! I especially like the reference to Arabia....
>
>Though She is somewhat misrepresented (IMO), Hekate makes an appearance, so
>She should certainly be invited to the party.
>
>If we wanted to get deeper, we might draw out the philosophical dimensions
>of the play as it exposes the emptiness of a life of consumerism:
>
>"To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow, /Creeps in this petty pace from
>day to day, /To the last syllable of recorded time;...
>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player /That struts and frets his hour
>upon the stage/And then is heard no more: it is a tale/Told by an idiot,
>full of sound and fury, /Signifying nothing."
>Act v Sc. vi.
>
>On a more obvious notes we could have a poster of Bush with that last line ;-)
>
>

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