Shades of Agnes deMille

stuartwsa · Post by **stuartwsa** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:09 pm

I found this cartoon in this week's New Yorker. The caption reads: "'Screaming Shrubbery,' by Third Rail Dance, at the Merce Cunningham Studio."
The accompanying blurb reads:
Third Rail Dance's pastiche of murder and jazz is like a round of Clue deconstructed by acerbic drama students. A French maid lasciviously twirls a feather duster, midgets hide under a baroness's cape, shrubbery comes to life, and a pale heroine performs a duet with an axe. A spastic butler narrates the action, and dancers speak lines and sing original songs by Russ Kaplan.
...change a few details, and it would sound like "our girl!"

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:53 pm

OHMAGOSH! While I was reading your commentary I was casting each role with Forum members!
That is funny, Stuart!
Thanks!

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:55 pm

I am no one's maid!

But I do like to twirl things lasciviously...

Ok.. Maybe just Thayne and the kids'...

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:14 pm

Oh Kat...may I axe you who you cast...LOL ?

Tracy...

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:08 am

Well, of course Audrey was only dressed as a French maid- Ooo-La-La! And Susan is the pale heroine, and the butler who narrates (who is not spastic) is of course FairhavenGuy.
Uh, I forget who I thought might be cast as the rest...

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:53 pm

As a former member of The Spouters, The Village Players, and Your Theater, I"m honored to be cast as the narrator. (I was once the narrator in A Thurber Carnival, in which I also performed the monologue "The Night the Bed Fell on Father.")

Now about those midgets. . .

lydiapinkham · Post by **lydiapinkham** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:53 pm

Please say I can be a bit of shrubbery! (Something medicinal that might be used as a tonic--or antidote. . .)

--Lyddie

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:56 pm

I want you all to know that I do employ a French Maid. I am as lazy as sin and need all the help I can get...

I am also an equal opportunity employer, therefore I do not employ Fifi, I employ Jean-Paul.

Here he is posing with some of the tools of his trade....

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:23 pm

Audrey...I asked you not to post my boyfriend's picture !

Tracy...

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:58 am

And Susan is the pale heroine

You've got that right, Kat! Ugh, it has been raining here nonstop since before the New Year. I feel like we will never see the California sun again. I suppose it could be worse, it could be nothing but snow instead!