TANYA! It was amazing! This morning on CBC radio, my secret lover (Sean Cullen) was interviewing your secret lover (Matthias Kom)! I even called you to tell you about it, but you were probably sensibly sleeping. I almost drove off the road, because I am not good at cars and phones at the same time. Reckless driving: DON’T DO IT, KIDS. But anyhow, it was really magical. Did you know that Matthias has written a musical of Macbeth, and is currently working on one based on The Winter’s Tale? Sean suggested he should also do a musical of Titus Andronicus, and improvised a line from what will surely be Titus: The Musical’s hit song “They cut off my hands! But I’ve got some branches!” And then Sean made Matthias participate in a radio play that Sean had written that morning and that Matthias hadn’t seen the script for yet, and Matthias got to play a man with an instrument that looked like a cross between trumpet and a corkscrew that would suck out the souls of radio interviewers. And then Sean asked Matthias to massage him with some pudding and then played a White Stripes song.
I am also now really depressed, because your secret lover is playing in Toronto on the 25th, and my secret lover is playing in Toronto (at the Drake, how hip) on the 26th, and I will be in Port Elgin on both nights, playing sad ukulele songs, all alone.
Why didn’t anyone get me a giant flying dirigible for Christmas? Then all of my problems would be solved.
I’m so glad they played a White Stripes song!
How do I buy the rights to the Hamlet musical?
Seriously? Did he say?
Can you imagine the Mathias Kom Hamlet musical? It would be more depressing than the original!
It was actually Macbeth! I just experienced a bizarre typo in which I meant Macbeth but said Hamlet. And I fixed it, but not in time for your comment. But yes! Mathias Kom Hamlet would be soooo depressing. And wonderous.
Oh, and also Matthias played an acoustic version of Little Seagull and it was lovely.