Yorick’s Skull
Quite a few people, it seems, have bequeathed their skulls to theater companys. They figure that, while they may not have been talented enough to appear in a production of Hamlet during their life, once they're dead they've got the part of Yorick's skull covered. From tvtropes.org:
So who's going to be the first to bequeath their skull to Weird Universe?
Comedian Del Close bequeathed his skull to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago for precisely this purpose. The skull currently residing at the Goodman, though, isn't his: nobody was willing to prepare it. Other aspiring posthumous Yoricks include Juan Potomachi, Andre Tchaikovsky, and Jonathan Hartman. Tchaikovsky's skull finally made it to the stage in the 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet (starring David Tennant).
So who's going to be the first to bequeath their skull to Weird Universe?
Comments
I don't know about my skull but my funny bone is already dedicated. I will also dedicate my humerus.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 02/16/09 at 08:32 AM
Sounds like we've got an opportunity here, Maxx. What (c)would't be done in the US is common practice over here.
When someone takes the "giant leap" they cloth them in 100% natural fibers, squeeze them into a wooden coffin, poor on a bit of wine, throw in a piece of bread, drop everything into a sarcophagus*, hand over some serious cash to the priest(s) and back off for 3 years. Viola! The bread and wine got the natural process started and things have been pretty well cleaned up by that time.
We could charge a mint for the work itself and by the time we add in shipping and handing we'll only need to get a some head once or twice a year to be satisfied.
*sarcophagus: From the Greek scarco = flesh phagus = eater
When someone takes the "giant leap" they cloth them in 100% natural fibers, squeeze them into a wooden coffin, poor on a bit of wine, throw in a piece of bread, drop everything into a sarcophagus*, hand over some serious cash to the priest(s) and back off for 3 years. Viola! The bread and wine got the natural process started and things have been pretty well cleaned up by that time.
We could charge a mint for the work itself and by the time we add in shipping and handing we'll only need to get a some head once or twice a year to be satisfied.
*sarcophagus: From the Greek scarco = flesh phagus = eater
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/16/09 at 09:13 AM
Why wouldn't anyone do it up?
I think the whole idea is cool as sh*t.
After it was prepared I would have no issue using it in the play. The hardest part would be calling it Yorick and not David.
I think the whole idea is cool as sh*t.
After it was prepared I would have no issue using it in the play. The hardest part would be calling it Yorick and not David.
Posted by AGFH on 02/16/09 at 11:10 AM
I wouldn't trust my skull to a theatre company. The stagehands would probably turn it into a bong, and I refuse to allow that if I am too dead to enjoy it.
Posted by Matt in Florida on 02/16/09 at 11:14 AM
I have a few skulls around the apartment I could donate...
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/18/09 at 05:36 AM
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