Another blow to my belief that Bacon wrote the plays. Or is it?! Researchers have found what they believe to be a portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/portrait-of-shakespeare-unveiled-399-years-late/?hp
We went to the theater and saw Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead! at the Ontological Theater. If LSD had won out over TV, we’d be watching something like this every night.
So, basically, there’s this room with a bunch of words and letters on the wall and two screens showing actors from Lisbon who say things like “it could happen in my lifetime” and “it’s broken beyond repair.” And there’s this airplane with baby dolls coming out of the cockpit. And a bunch of open books. And four people in black uniforms wearing tombstone shapes on their backs. And uh a guy dressed as an old timey-aviator. And open books. And flowers… and uh that weird doll thing. And a sort of table.
And there is no narrative or plot, it’s just images and dialog associated with the sub-consciousness.
And a whole bunch of really weird crap happens, all of which is really familiar because it uses a lot of archetypal symbolic language that’s common in psychological exploration or at least get used in movies and art about the psychology of the mind. Maybe not keys and locks, but certainly snakes, playing cards, knives, doorways, airplanes full of babies, open books, hearts and dinner plates. And the lights blind the audience some times. And the actors stare and pose a lot and utter weird things through their big white gags like “Wrong again, Sweetie.”
For a lot of people, this sounds like a total art school nightmare. I know the lovely wife didn’t enjoy it. I thought it was great.
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