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48. Group
Circle Dance
The Felliniesque
carnival music returns, this time decelerating from fast and
joyous to sad and pensive. The imagined community seems to
be redeemed in this moment of festive comedy. Hand-in-hand,
the whole cast dance counterclockwise under the sign of Moon
and School.
The play has now
come full circle as one of Deguchi's opening images returns.
Puck leads Oberon (schoolteacher/director-with-wings) to the
centre of the circle and tenderly, as the music dies,
removes his wings-and-satchel. His god-like powers are gone,
like Prospero's. Only the mortal director remains,
contemplating the after-image of what has been.
See also:
Bar 50.
Closing Dance
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