The love for three oranges - L'amore delle tre melarance (Photo credit: Robin Iversen Rönnlund)
Skyline High School is performing The Love of Three Oranges this upcoming weekend. They created a website specifically for their production which you can check out here.
But I wanted to particularly highlight this line from their site:
Because of the impending doom of 2012, Mrs. Riddoch thinks that this slapstick comedy will be a great way to start off the year. “We need to lighten up this year” she said. “and ‘The Love for Three Oranges’ is the perfect way to do it!” She loves the comedy and hopes that in the midst of 2012, it will be a breath of fresh air and comedy.
I like the idea of needing laughter now especially when everyone’s convinced the world will end (whether they view that literally, as in zombies, or figuratively because of politics or whatever else). I originally wrote Three Oranges in the aftermath of 9/11 so the play was always meant to be a break from the horrors of the world. When things get tough, we need an escape and laughter is usually the perfect medicine.
So whether the Mayans turn out to be right and society as we know it will come crashing down around us in 2012 or not, I’m all for going down laughing! There’s no reason the end times can’t also be good times. 😉
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
