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MARKET WOMEN
A-chop, chop, chop,
The guillotine is working overtime.
Ka-thump, thump, thump,
The heads are rolling,
Pouring out their rosy wine.
Come, march,
We’ll slaughter the haughty witch
Join us,
We’ll butcher the bitch.
Antoinette, we want your head!
Antoinette, we want your head!
Antoinette, we want your head!…
—The Ghosts of Versailles (1992)
image source: my screencap
Some shots of the creepy courtier ghosts from The Ghosts of Versailles
Guess what arrived in the mail today? I can’t wait until this weekend when I’ll have time to watch it all the way through!
Cree Carrico in rehearsal for the Manhattan School of Music’s production of Ghosts of Versailles
“The Ghosts of Versailles,” with Cree Carrico, seated, as Marie Antoinette, at the Manhattan School of Music.
A bust of Christoph Willibald Gluck by Jean-Antoine Houdon circa 1775.
Gluck taught Marie Antoinette during her early days in Vienna. She later became one of his most important French patrons.
She must stay
And ride the cart
And see the crowds
And hear the drums
And count the stairs
And feel the blade—
Fear, terror, panic!
-aria from Ghosts of Versailles
MADAME ANTOINE
One day…
One day I’ll be queen
Live on peaches and cream
Wear satin and lace
And laugh in the faces
Of the teachers and priests
And the boys will all fawn
Fawn before me like beasts
-Roger Water’s Ca Ira
