The Real Thing and Other Impieties

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 8-9:30 p.m.

3 Victoria St., LSPU Hall

On the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen shares petits fours with a certain stateless bear; Trump’s defense lawyer offers opening statements assuring the jury that his client is human; in the depths of the Antarctic, young love kindles over exhumations and Coke; on the run from the Evil Queen, Snow White finds herself in the cottage of the Seven Deadly Sins; a guide to penitence is mistranslated with fateful consequences; a precocious young artist meets the Emperor; a Russian warship does what it’s told: in these and other vignettes, Andrew Loman (Associate Professor, Department of English) grapples with the banalities of mass culture and the nightmare of history with his usual restraint and discernment.

Content warning: the subject matter is on occasion irritatingly obscure; the language is often on the salty side; the stories routinely resolve themselves in deplorable bursts of violence. It’s implied that Eric Trump hatched from the egg of an echidna. A pastiche of late-phase James wrecks the whole thing.

Presented by Department of English