Panic

Dear Readers,

I just got back from a play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. The name of this play was Panic. That is what I started to feel when I couldnt pick out the plot or the line of the story in the play. I went into the play not knowing wth it was about. I BOUGHT a friggin brochure for 1 GBP (= $4 EC) and that didnt even help me to figure out what the play was about. So I was like "Ok I will just watch and see what it is about." Boy was I wrong for saying that. It first started when the performers started to talk to us. I was like ok maybe they will do that at the beginning. Then they started and I tried linking the pieces of the 75 mins of play together and there was no link.

But this does not mean that the play was boring or retarded (ok a lil retarded). The props was very creative because instead of having a steady background and props they used lights to represent different scenes. And they would use a projector which shone on brown paper (the same paper that paper bags are made out of). I had seen the Brown Theatre in RI do that once and it was very creative.

Something that kept coming up was the Great God Pan, the God of Nature. And there was many sexual innuendos. An example of this was a scene where the man had on horns, a goatee and a makeshift nose and he started to chase the 3 nymphs then he went behind the props and then when he came back out he had a bunch of reeds tied together to represent his "cock".

There was another scene that I was like I had to talk about it was a scene where one of the girls who played a nymph was in a position that made her look like she was lying down in a bed, then she started a story about her having special abilities. She had them since she was in 6th Grade when she was playing Mary in a Play. She then thought how did she get pregnant? Was it just she woke up one day and she was Pregnant (without having sex)? Or was it she had sex with God? She decided to run with the idea that she had sex with God. This boy, who kinda had a very bad stammer (that the boys used to make fun of), was playing Joseph. The Play was a success and after the play he came up to her and started to ask her if he could get a kiss, but because his stammering was so bad because he was nervous he didnt complete what he said before she kissed him. Then after that night his stammering started to recede to the point that it was gone. So she noticed after a while the people she had sex with were healed of whatever problems they had. So she thought that since she had sex with God she got the special ability to heal peoples problems through sex. So her aim was to have sex with as many people as possible to make the world a better place.

But I must admit it was good. I just hope that the other 2 plays aren't as confusing. Now back to the Great God Pan, here is a lil background on home:



Pan (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός), in Greek religion and mythology, is the companion of the nymphs,[1] god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. His name originates within the Greek language, from the word paein, meaning "to pasture".[2] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring.

In Roman mythology, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature spirit who was the father of Bona Dea (Fauna). In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the romanticist movement of western Europe, and also in the 20th century Neopagan movement.[3]

Erotic aspects

Pan is famous for his sexual powers, and is often depicted with an erect phallus. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds.[12]

He was believed by the Greeks to have plied his charms primarily on maidens and shepherds. Though he failed with Syrinx and Pitys, Pan didn't fail with the Maenads—he had every one of them, in one orgiastic riot or another. To effect this, Pan was sometimes multiplied into a whole tribe of Panes.

Pan's greatest conquest was that of the moon goddess Selene. He accomplished this by wrapping himself in a sheepskin[13] to hide his hairy black goat form, and drew her down from the sky into the forest where he seduced her.

Now this is why you gotta love Greek Mythology. Everyone was horny lil bastards LOL (Tht isnt true but still I just wanted to say it ha). If you want to continue reading up on Pan you could check out this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(mythology)

OXXO

Mayeshah