6/8/2023 0 Comments Sartori imajica![]() ![]() ![]() He went back inside to join the line for the toilets, leaving Jude at the door, watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight. When they exited, there was sleet in the wind. Light had come into the world again, even if it was to the accompaniment of tap-dancing elves. In the end, with Charlie Parker angels wailing on the stable roof and Santa crooning at the manger, the piece collapsed into high camp. The second half was even more of a grab bag than the first, the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smokescreen put up to cover the creators’ embarrassment at their own sincerity. “I don’t know whether it’s a comedy or a satire or what the hell it is,” he said. The show’s eclecticism offended his rationalism deeply. “But it doesn’t make any sense,” he complained, in deadly earnest. The kid gets born, the kid grows up, the kid gets crucified.” “I mean, it’s not like there’s any mystery about it. ![]() “Do we really need to stay for the rest?” he asked her as they sipped coffee in the tiny foyer. He concealed his boredom through the first act, but by intermission he was itching to be away to claim his prize. If indeed he’d secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets, he suffered for his lust. “What about the rest of the time?” he hollered after her. “Marlin, sometimes you’re sublime,” she said, dumping her purchases and racing to change. ![]()
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