Coffins, Coffins & Casket

Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin. A distinction between "coffins" and "caskets", using coffin to refer to a tapered hexagonal or octagonal (also considered to be anthropoid in shape) box used for a burial and casket to refer to a rectangular burial box with a split lid used for viewing the deceased as seen in the picture above.

The Question is, my dear friends... would you lie in a coffin, actually lie in it for a while? Have you ever wondered, maybe just out of curiosity ... what does it feel like inside that wooden box... with the lid closed?

Well, people today are more receptive and open to the topic of death and coffins... on the coast of Ghana, the Ga tribe approach death in an interesting way.

The coffins they create are brightly colored, elaborate and festive. Often called "fantasy coffins", they represent something about how deceased lived. Coffins are created in the form of fish, animals, cars, bottles, Bibles, and any other object requested. A fisherman may get a fish coffin; A carpenter, a hammer; or a photographer, a camera. Someone devout may choose a Bible. Vices like beet bottles and cigarettes are also used.

Whatever it is... we do have something in stored for you along these lines, but then who's going to let the cat out of the bag? No, it will definitely not be me... you will have to come to find out...

if there will be or there will not be, a coffin a casket, and a body to see :)

p/s: do bring along your cameras, you might want to take a body shot with it !

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This Hallow's eve, the Theatre is coming down to party at the clubs !

Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 10:00pm - 3:00am

Location: Boiler Room, KL

No 4512,Jalan 23/70, Hartamas Square, Desa Sri Hartama, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A year of beauty. A year of plenty. A year of planting. A year of harvest.

A year of forests. A year of healing. A year of vision. A year of passion.

A year of rebirth. A year of rebirth. This year may we renew the earth.

Let it begin with each step we take. Let it begin with each change we make.

Let it begin with each chain we break. And let it begin every time we awake.

Always felt that theatre is stuck up there and should be down here where the real people are... well, its Hallows nite and we, the theatre people love to let our hair down and when we do all hell breaks loose... (pssst....its actually almost everyday we let our hair down) for those who have hair, those who don't they still let it down somehow..

So, we are coming to you, to let loose, hang out, squirm around and make you cry.... laugh till you cry that is.

This event is brought to you by the cast of "A Grimms Fairytale", Seventh Creation Sin, Womyn Like Us and The AIIA Members :)

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