The Carnival's Tonight in Dickeyville

 

Come one, come all, tonight one of the oldest, darkest, family carnivals in America comes to Dickeyville. 

 

 

 

The Dream that was Still a Nightmare

 

 

Sometimes dreams survive the horrible. Sometimes dreams will always remain haunted. Sometimes a people are strangers within the community. Sometimes a people have strangers within their community.  Sometimes all at the same time.  The dream that was still a nightmare plays out under the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the aftermath of the holocaust.

 

 

The Tragedy of Mack and Beth

 

You can take Shakespeare out of context, but you can’t take context out of Shakespeare.  Mack and Duncan watch the Yankees/Red Sox game. Red Sox win. As is typical after a rivalry game, Mack kills Duncan with a baseball bat. What do you call it?  Yeah, revolution. Mack and Beth plot. Duncan wakes and Beth seduces him. Mack conspires with his two weird sisters from the valley who tell Mack he really has three sisters, but none born of a woman shall harm him. But thanes happen.

 

 

 

Baby, Did You Tell Sadness Goodbye?

 

In a world aware of magic, Jackie wants to buy a home. But the house that is totally her is filled with history and sadness. In this confused collage of fairy tales, there is no Cinderella, Snow White, nor especially a Prince Charming. Saint George the Dragon Slayer will have to do.

 

 

 

John Stuart Mill's Got the Lovesick Blues

 

 

John Stuart Mill was a child prodigy trained by his father and the great Utilitarian moralist Jeremy Bentham to be a logical and philosophical machine. J. S. Mill was an influential British genius of the 19th century with profound and progressive ideas in scientific methodology, inductive logic, public education, suffrage, and moral ethics. Maybe just as importantly, John Stuart Mill fell in love.

 

 

Just Another Park Bench Play

 

I know. You've seen every park bench play there is.  But have you seen an anti-parkbench play?  Edward Albee hasn't even seen this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Aristotle’s Acceptance Speech at the 2016 U.S.A. Rationalist Party Convention

 

The Year is 2016.  Charles Darwin is the Progressive Party’s nominee for President.  But the U.S.A. Rationalist Party has nominated no one else but Aristotle himself.  Listen in on the acceptance speech of the great philosopher. The state of the nation and the survival of the earth (and everything else - even how we are to classify insects!)  is in the balance.