We’re all getting blotto, boys!
Pulsating watusi toes twinkling
Now Now Now
Roll out that grapey chaise lounge
Pit that olive!
Bake that brie!
Get Juno on the horn, man!
Remember when we couldn’t have any fun?
Quaffing Caecuban was a seven deadly
While psycho Queenie was scheming and dreaming:
“Death to the Empire!”
“Destroy the Capitol!”
With her infected horde of teste-challenged go-go boys
A spoiled orgy of prissy Persian cats
Her manic, pea-green expectations
webby with absinthe…
Her fleet smolders in like a strip club gaze
A tangled Luisitania jig
Cold shower face slap
She awakens from her smoky stupor
Telescoping Caesar, salad days spinning
as he chips at her ass
A hungry hawk
A serial killer smile in a frozen boxwood maze
Hoping to haul the femme fatale back to Rome
Tattooed
Pierced
Spread-eagled on a carny’s knee
But she dreams of a more noble sleep.
And as she gazed on her burning empire
She grasped the basket of asps
Serene, Calm
She cradles them near, seeking their silky venom
The mirage of death flits, squid-like through her veins
She plunges downward now
Escaping his reach
Proud
Arrogant
Her final defeat
Descends into triumph
Note: I wrote this a while ago: it's my stab at translating an Horace ode. I re-discovered it while thinking of Antony & Cleopatra, of course, which closes this weekend and ends ASP's season. If you haven't seen the show yet, you should really try to get in, it's pretty amazing, and Paula is astounding and heart-breaking as always!
Here's
the info:
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
525 Washington Street
Downtown Crossing
directed by Adrianne Krstansky
TONIGHT at 7:30pm
Thursday 5.19 & Friday 5.20 at 7:30pm
CLOSING: Saturday 5.21 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Purchase your tickets today with the code FINAL10 and receive $10 off the price of your ticket!
Featuring: James Andreassi*, Siobhan Brown, Jesse Hinson,
Doug Lockwood*, Johnnie McQuarley, Paula Plum*, Mara Sidmore*, Richard Snee* and Giselle Ty.
Buy your tickets HERE!
or call 866-811-4111
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