Editor’s note: This blog has been updated to reflect ticket prices. Original blog erroneously indicated that admission was free.
Jack & Jill III – BANNED! 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29th, Black C Art Gallery. Admission $10 per ticket. Reservations can be made at https://blackc.ticketbud.com/jack-jill-iii-banned-a-staged-reading.
When last we heard from Jack & Jill they had just been blown from here to eternity by nuclear holocaust.
But that turned out to be…oh, I dunno…maybe a bad acid trip or somethin’.
Because Jack and Jill are back.
And it’s a damned good thing, too.
Because having previously squared off against GNV’s downtown parking tyranny and then the End Of The World As We Know It, J&J are now what amounts to The Resistance in this here ignorance-is-bliss Free State Of Floriduh.
They are our last line of defense against state-imposed propaganda and censorship, as it turns out.
Who knew?
So who are Jack & Jill?
Think Fred and Ethel Mertz, only in a sit-com written by Kafka.
In other words, just the sort of heroes we need in an age when The Great DeSanitizer is imposing group-think conformity on our universities, schools, libraries and workplaces.
Jack is Gainesville artist Tom Miller. Jill is Black C Artistic Director Lauren Warhol Caldwell. And together they will be ripping the lid off censorship this coming Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 7 pm, at downtown’s Black C..
Here’s the Kafkaesque plot of this “side-splitting comedy that confronts book-banning, rising authoritarianism, and the engineered erosion of critical thought head-on.”
This directly from the Horse’s Mouth (Jack):
“They only remember the first four lines.
“Rumor says there are fifteen verses—and the rest have been redacted, burned, or banned.
“To reclaim their story and uncover the truth, Jack and Jill return to the well. But the water is poisoned with propaganda. The hill is patrolled. And the Narrator—brought to chilling life in a special appearance by Sara Morsey—is losing control of the plot, the language, and reality itself.”
What to do? What to do?
I dunno. But you need to be there to find out.
I mean, J&J may not be able to stop The Great DeSanitizer, but at least it’ll be funny.
Plus, rumor has it there will be wine.
FreeGNV 