And on a lighter note...

[saxikath]

Listening to this CD again is reminding me how utterly cool traditional Breton music is.

Go bombardes!

Comments

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Make way for the Loud Band. :) That was such a cool Revels...ambulatory topiary and all.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Birnam Wood?

[saxikath]

No, the Green Knight, actually. The only trees that actually moved were the ones that got snagged on my hat. :)

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I thought this was the Revels in which the opening sequence featured a Morris dancer hidden under a giant privet hedge. Which got up and moved (courtesy of the Morris dancer) to the accompaniment of (forgive me, whoever wrote it) truly awful poetry about the Green Man. And then the Morris dancers in the first act had those silly leaves stuck all over them.

Birnam Wood would have been cool though. Shakespeare based a lot of his plays on folk tales...and Revels uses folk tales for their plots...hmm, a ScottishPlay Revels. That would be kind of cool actually. There *is* a murdered king in The Scottish Play, but he doesn't come back to life. I wonder what happens in whatever original folk tale Shakespeare borrowed and butchered. Hmmm.

[saxikath]

Oh, you're right, there was that weird dancing tree thing in the opening, while we all stood out in the aisles waiting to do the call-and-response singing bit.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

On a completely unrelated note, Happy Valentine's Day. :-D