Meat is Murder, Jamón is Flesh
Walking down Madrid's one and only Calle Fuencarral the other day, JD and I stumbled upon the following poster advertising the Centro Dramático Nacional's latest theatre production, what appears to be a very interesting version of Tennessee William's Suddenly, Last Summer:
For those wondering, the image above is, yes, pieces of ham carefully placed on a naked man's body, head hooded, weehoo practically in plain sight.
And, for a closer look, I present the "zoom shot." Don't be alarmed. Once again, it's only ham gently carressing a naked dude's flesh, so as to appear as flesh, that is, in the end, ham (?) I wonder just how many Spaniards salivate as they walk past all of this perfectly good jamón york just lying there wasting away!? The horror...oh, the horror.
Based solely on my tenth-grade love for The Glass Menagerie and this poster, I will be going to see this play.
posted by Patty @ 10:19 AM
6 Comments:
i was hoping you would ask me to model slabs of salmon steaks all over me nekked hooded body, then post them on flickr.
we'd have to do it on a hot day, so it could smell like the open air fish market across the street from my piso. you think?
or maybe we could just go see the play together.
ham? i thought it was loooooooots of ginger... have any of you ever done that?
Covering myself with that much ginger, Nando, would probably make me break out in hives - a fitting ending to this week.
But either way - what the hell does a man covered in edible pink stuff of some kind have to do with Williams' play?
WARNING SPOILER
In answer to Mike's question I think the ham has something to do with the story Catherine tells about how her closeted son Sebastian dies. Sebastian had been traveling around Europe trying to rummage the recta of the local boys with what Pacchan would call his "weeehoo." Incidentally, the boys end up tricking him and eating him, which is to say cannabalizing him.
Ummm, that's like, gross, er sumthing. Rather telling, I think, that in the Spanish mind the human body would have to be converted into jamon in order to be rendered edible. Thanks Nicholas!
yes, thank you nicholas! i had no idea...and will most definitely NOT be missing this play.
as for jd, oh we'll still do the photo shoot, but let's wait until it's, say, 110 degrees, that way we'll get the FULL gag reflex in action!
and nando, is *THAT* what you did to yourself the last time you had sushi? i knew you liked ginger, but this...??? (hehehe, wink wink--querote cabezon!)
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