The Frugality of Death
Note: The below intro was from a 2014 review of Icelandic journalist-turned-composer/playwright Ívar Páll Jónsson's off-Broadway musical, Revolution In The Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson, Furniture Painter. The story, set literally inside Ragnar, imagined people as representing various corporeal elements that contribute to the overall health, healing (and growth) of the painter's elbow . But the balance had become corrupted by disease and Ragmar's system had begun to turn on its "