This is going to be rather a different post compared to the ones I usually make. I am going to tell about my ways of celebrating Samhain this year.Yesterday (31st of October) I spent in solitude with a really important person in my life. We did things we enjoy and things that strengthen confidence between us and talked about some very personal stuff. This lovely evening was like rays of sun, shining into a dark room and all because somebody had the courage to peek between the curtains.
Today (1st of November) I am going to a theater with this friend of mine to see The Addams Family Musical. I really hope it is going to be indeed funny and not too farce-like. The beginning situation is that Wednesday has fallen in love with a normal male person and this creates a lot of drama, since especially Morticia thinks that is a bad thing. Or at least that is what the summary says at the theater's home page. Unfortunately the page is in Finnish only, so I am not linking it. But the play is an adaptation of the Broadway show. Apparently it is 'an original story' (of Charles Addams, I suppose) but as far as I am concerned, that sentence on the web page could also mean that it is an original story meaning that it (acceptance and kids growing up) is something everybody has to ponder in their life and has been for many centuries now.
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| Samhain: the door to the world of Dead is open! |
I must say I am a tiny bit skeptical of this plot, because I have always seen Addams Family as a tolerant and open family, who (especially in the old TV-series) try not to judge anyone and most of all Morticia is the one trying to be the mediator. But we'll see how the play turns out!
2nd of November there is a goth club in my hometown, celebrating Samhain. I am attending it, but before that I have the most coolest lecture ever. Yes, I have a lecture on Saturday, All Hollows' Eve on a local Cemetery at 7 p.m.! I t is a part of a course in Literature Studies called The Traditions of Macabre and our university teacher is going to hold one of the lessons at a grave yard. After the lecture I am off to home, quickly change to party outfit and head to the goth club. I think it would be not that respectful for those other people, who might be at the cemetery, greeting their dear departed, if I was in a latex dress or something. Also, there is going to be really cold, so i would catch a cold if I'd wander around in a mini skirt!
Happy Halloween and Mysterious Samhain!
While I usually dreaded Saturday lectures, this one makes me jealous I'm not living in the States... I wish you a pleasent Samhain!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm not living in the States, I live in Finland and that Saturday lecture is voluntary, but it compensates one normal lecture if one attends it. :D Pleasant Samhain to you too!
DeleteI like the idea of having a lecture in a Cemetery. There are Gothic films been shown at our local ruined Abbey (Kirkstall) in the evenings from yesterday to the 3rd, don`t know if I make it to one or not, Saturday I`m off to Whitby Goth Weekend, but alas just for the day
ReplyDeleteA movie night at a ruined Abbey, that sounds like a really fun way to spend the evening! Also the Goth Weekend sounds tremendously nice. :D It is so wonderful that there are so many happenings and events at this time of year, but it also makes me a bit sad, because one can not go to every event. I miss a friends Halloween party because of those other events I am participating today.
DeleteThe cemetery lecture sounds wonderful! I would love to go to something like that! I guess I should wear one of my white lacy ethereal ghostlike things instead of one of my black undead ones. Ha ha ha. But since most of my stuff is kind of Victorian, I don't think I would offend anyone too much. After all, gothic people are usually quite respectful of the dead, it is just that some people don't get that, so not wearing a clubbing dress might be a good idea. :)
ReplyDeleteI felt a few misgivings about the Addams family musical too, as you said, I have always seen them as so accepting of the oddness of normal people. (Yeah so strange people like me, normal people are endlessly weird, seriously, they do some way odder and more antisocial stuff than the rest of us :P) Also in the second Addams family movie, Wednesday did have a thing with that boy who was pretty normal, apart from his odd collection of allergies.
You are quite right, a Victorian Goth would not be as offensive-looking as a Cyber Goth in a Cemetery! :D
DeleteWhat you are saying about Wednesdays love life is true, though I always saw it like she was not that much in love with the boy as the boy was addicted to Wednesday. But I have not watched the movies in a while, so I might remember wrong! ^^