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Whoever you are, you will soon have a great deal in common with your company. You are to be your own entertainment, a spectacle unto yourself. And you have come with the same purpose as the rest. You are here to chant, and pray, to embrace the all-knowing the all-powerful, the all-attractive. You are here to attain Krishna...
...good mate said: "Now must we pray...
...resurrected cliches that have lain dormant for decades. There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites. There are pseudo profundities that recall the worst of The Lion in Winter: "I am the King of England; when I pray, God answers." Even the costumes are exaggerated. Lest the audience miss the villainous character of Cardinal Wolsey (Anthony Quayle), he is wrapped in a Satanic scarlet no vicar ever wore on earth...
...handled by Bruegel. He trundled the terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict of Blood" is fulfilled before our eyes...
...detracts from our response to the dance-it leaves us fragmented. This is a sad irony, because Blacke's "Song of Liberty" is essentially a celebration of life without restrictions and compartments: a celebration of man free and whole in the "Eternal Delight" of his being. That's what "Pray For It" and "Pavilion" are finally about-and that's what might actually clear away some of the evil spirits in our lives...