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December 15, 2005

Mother Moonbat Hits the London Stage

Posted by Dave Blount at December 15, 2005 6:36 AM

How could the London arts community possibly follow up not one but two plays devoted to worshiping the world's dumbest "peace" activist, Rachel "Saint Pancake" Corrie? How could Nobel laureate Dario Faux I mean Fo possibly compete with the infantile moonbattery of fellow prizewinner Harold Pinter?

The answer to both questions is Peace Mom, a play written by Fo based on Sheehan's diatribes that premiered last week in London.

If you were wondering just how deep the brown stuff can get in the vicinity of Nobel laureate playwrights, pull on your waders and check out Fo's explanation of what attracted him to the saga of the Ditch Witch:

One of the things that grabbed me is that that there is an epic quality to the letters that Sheehan wrote to George Bush, and especially Barbara Bush. There is a rhythm and tempo in her prose which recalls the great epic writers of Greece. When she writes: "I am the mother of a son killed in Iraq; you are the mother of the man who killed him," it is almost hendecasyllabic. She has a gift of candour and directness and epic simplicity — Cindy may not know it but she is a born writer.

For those unfamiliar with Sheehan's literary skills, this is what her writing looks like after it's been edited.

It's not just Faux who knows how to shovel. Guardian arts correspondent Charlotte Higgins describes Sheehan's nails-on-a-blackboard whine as a "fluting, soft soprano" and the self-satisfied beam she greets cameras with when she's not pretending to be mourning as "her usual beatific smile."

As DL observes at TMH's Bacon Bits, Mother Moonbat sure is special.

Hat tip: Prince of Leaves