Monday, March 14, 2005
Edward Albee in the Barnyard
Sed Contra on The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Peter Kreeft, a philosopher and professor at Boston College has noted that love is the most likely thing in the universe to be counterfeited and it seems to me that all sorts of things abroad in the world today masquerade as love, claiming the title without the underlying notions of sacrifice and obligation. Absent God and a proper understanding of love, it seems to me that we, like Martin and the family, are left groping for answers as we watch any number of things take their seemingly inevitable path from abomination to deviancy to mere fetish to alternative way of living to mainstream society. How long will it be before the news that someone was discovered having sex with their dog causes merely a ripple in the conversation of some parties of a certain type and in a certain locale?
Finally, the commentary I have been looking for on this wonderfully provocative play. It's one of the best of the past 5 years, IMHO. Really takes Leviticus 18:23 and puts in a modern context, even if the idea may initally cause some snickering.
Peter Kreeft, a philosopher and professor at Boston College has noted that love is the most likely thing in the universe to be counterfeited and it seems to me that all sorts of things abroad in the world today masquerade as love, claiming the title without the underlying notions of sacrifice and obligation. Absent God and a proper understanding of love, it seems to me that we, like Martin and the family, are left groping for answers as we watch any number of things take their seemingly inevitable path from abomination to deviancy to mere fetish to alternative way of living to mainstream society. How long will it be before the news that someone was discovered having sex with their dog causes merely a ripple in the conversation of some parties of a certain type and in a certain locale?
Finally, the commentary I have been looking for on this wonderfully provocative play. It's one of the best of the past 5 years, IMHO. Really takes Leviticus 18:23 and puts in a modern context, even if the idea may initally cause some snickering.
