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Warning: description of my dreams
Sep. 14th, 2015 06:39 pmWhat a nightmare. First of all, I was watching a production of Macbeth that featured the actors in Howdy Doody suits, on stilts, wearing giant rubber masks of the Abbott cabinet. It was horrifying.
Then there was a call for audience participation which turned out to be….
One woman complaining about her boss’s husband phoning her to make bookings for her boss to go to the beautician. Her boss kept cancelling them and the receptionist’s sympathy was with the husband. ‘She is his wife, you know,’ she said. I shouted, ‘But it is her body!’
But then it was the next person’s turn to complain. A doctor in a white coat said, ‘There were complications from the routine vaccination. The child has Down Syndrome.’ Everyone around me was all ‘vaccinations give your children Downs syndrome! I will never vaccinate.’ I tried to protest and to get the doctor to explain again, because I was sure what she meant was ‘This child had a pre-existing medical condition and unfortunately she had a rare reaction to the vaccine. The vaccine did not give her an illness.’ But the doctor just repeated the same sentences and would not listen to me!
This was truly the stuff of nightmares, me knowing best and not being ignored while being forced to watch Abbott cast as Macbeth. Is he a once good man tempted to go bad, torn with indecision? No, he was always a bad man and he wouldn’t know introspection if it bit him on the bottom. This was a terrible production!
Then there was a call for audience participation which turned out to be….
One woman complaining about her boss’s husband phoning her to make bookings for her boss to go to the beautician. Her boss kept cancelling them and the receptionist’s sympathy was with the husband. ‘She is his wife, you know,’ she said. I shouted, ‘But it is her body!’
But then it was the next person’s turn to complain. A doctor in a white coat said, ‘There were complications from the routine vaccination. The child has Down Syndrome.’ Everyone around me was all ‘vaccinations give your children Downs syndrome! I will never vaccinate.’ I tried to protest and to get the doctor to explain again, because I was sure what she meant was ‘This child had a pre-existing medical condition and unfortunately she had a rare reaction to the vaccine. The vaccine did not give her an illness.’ But the doctor just repeated the same sentences and would not listen to me!
This was truly the stuff of nightmares, me knowing best and not being ignored while being forced to watch Abbott cast as Macbeth. Is he a once good man tempted to go bad, torn with indecision? No, he was always a bad man and he wouldn’t know introspection if it bit him on the bottom. This was a terrible production!
