Comments on: Slings and Arrows, Smells and Bells http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carissa Smith http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1460 Carissa Smith Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:14:45 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1460 Good to know, Jenny--thanks. Good to know, Jenny–thanks.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1458 Jenny Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:09:17 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1458 The pig truck is another reference to Stratford... the city is the pork capital of Ontario. (The more you know about the city and the Stratford Festival, the more cheeky refrences you will pick up on...) <em>Jenny's last blog post..<a href='http://sixdegreesstratford.blogspot.com/2008/02/tilda-swinton.html' rel="nofollow">Tilda Swinton</a></em> The pig truck is another reference to Stratford… the city is the pork capital of Ontario. (The more you know about the city and the Stratford Festival, the more cheeky refrences you will pick up on…)

Jenny’s last blog post..Tilda Swinton

]]> By: Richard Clark http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1371 Richard Clark Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:27:45 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1371 Wow. Wow.

]]> By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1370 The Dane Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:24:23 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1370 Could be more simple. Could just be that they are doing a production of Ham-let. p.s. I lied, Canadians really do eat hams. Both the pork product and the bad actor variety. Could be more simple. Could just be that they are doing a production of Ham-let.

p.s. I lied, Canadians really do eat hams. Both the pork product and the bad actor variety.

]]> By: Carissa Smith http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1365 Carissa Smith Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:16:56 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1365 Huh--I don't think I fully got the "Canada's Best Hams" joke myself. I just thought it was a reference to bad actors! Thanks. Huh–I don’t think I fully got the “Canada’s Best Hams” joke myself. I just thought it was a reference to bad actors! Thanks.

]]> By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/slings-and-arrows-smells-and-bells/#comment-1357 The Dane Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:39:37 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=443#comment-1357 Huh. I've never been enamoured with musicals myself, finding them to be generally painful experiences only to be endured for the sake of love. Regular theater I find moderately more worthwhile, having seen a handful of plays I actually enjoyed. Still, <i>Slings and Arrows</i> sounds like a show worth the time to check out. Thanks for the article. P.S. for those who didn't get the "Canada’s Best Hams" joke, it's funny because Canadians don't actually eat ham. With <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink" rel="nofollow">Canadian dietary laws</a> prohibiting the consumption of pork product, the "Canada's Best hams" truck can be seen either as an apparition (thus Oliver is made a ghost <i>by</i> a ghost) or as something ultimately blasphemous and perhaps even demonic (thereby adding neatly to <a href="http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/essays/Esupernatural.htm" rel="nofollow">the supernatural aspect of the Hamlet theme</a> and further exploring the impact of <a href="http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Hamlet-Critical-Essays-Free-Will-and-Fate-in-Hamlet-and-Oedipus-Rex.id-121,pageNum-74.html" rel="nofollow">Fate/Destiny</a> upon the players—not unlike in Stoppard's <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</i>). Huh. I’ve never been enamoured with musicals myself, finding them to be generally painful experiences only to be endured for the sake of love. Regular theater I find moderately more worthwhile, having seen a handful of plays I actually enjoyed. Still, Slings and Arrows sounds like a show worth the time to check out. Thanks for the article.

P.S. for those who didn’t get the “Canada’s Best Hams” joke, it’s funny because Canadians don’t actually eat ham. With Canadian dietary laws prohibiting the consumption of pork product, the “Canada’s Best hams” truck can be seen either as an apparition (thus Oliver is made a ghost by a ghost) or as something ultimately blasphemous and perhaps even demonic (thereby adding neatly to the supernatural aspect of the Hamlet theme and further exploring the impact of Fate/Destiny upon the players—not unlike in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).

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