Discursive Aside (5)
I’m putting up this Goya painting again (from yesterday’s post Discursive Aside page 4) because I want to point out that Goya painted this as a mural, in his house, in what would have been his dining room (along with other dark palette murals).
I can’t really imagine seeing this every time I sit down to eat. Or this one:
But Goya’s Goya, and he’s a genius. A contemporary of Beethoven, and like Beethoven, the last of the old masters, the first of the moderns.
The Cronus eating his children painting made me think of Medea serving hers to Jason. And that in turn made me think of the play Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella by Bill Rauch, a mash-up of Medea by Euripides, Macbeth by Shakespeare, and Cinderella the musical by Rogers and Hammerstein (the same Broadway duo behind The Sound of Music).
It was the greatest theater I have ever experienced, seeing the way these three plays were mashed together. I think that’s what I love, the mash-up, and what’s new that comes out of it. I think it’s what I’m doing with our story, or rather, it’s what I can’t help but go toward, just from sheer attraction. What it is that you love doing? If your greatest dream came true, what would it be? Would anyone be angry?