My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding was so last week. This week we’re all about Tales of the New Isis Lodge.

English Heretic, the producers of this fascinating new musical, describe themselves as England’s “very finest occult archaeologists, astral geographers and mystical toponymists”. They aim to “help people decode and realise the alchemical ciphers and conspiratorial interplay of the buildings and landscapes around them”.

Somehow this translates into making a 65 minute musical of “lush and occult exotica issuing from a transplutonic transmitter”.

The English Heretic blog, maintained by “Dr Champagne”, describes the musical as

Drawing its structure from the ultra decadent and ornate rituals described in Grant’s book Hecate’s Fountain English Heretic guide you through Egyptian pre-history to the fungi of Yuggoth, re-imagine flower power in an Indian Tantric idiom, describe the workings of Chinese sorcerers, realise the neither-neither hidden within the jump rhythms of Count Basie and invoke Choronzon in the Crimson Desert. Aeons in its reification and packaged in delicious artwork, stylised as a homage to Grant’s Typhonian tomes.

Wow!

The CD is £8 and can be purchased from their online shop. James of Mauve Zone Recordings is already a fan.

Spotted on LAShTAL.com, and further encouraged by Nova at The Third Mind.

Popularity: 7%

Reading The Globe and Mail this weekend my husband came across an article about this improbably titled musical.

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding was written by David Hein and Irene Carl, and first debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in July, and seems to have been a hit with Eye Weekly and NOW Magazine. It’s now has been picked up by David Mirvish for a four-week commercial run at the Panasonic Theatre in November.

The authors are self-described “cashews” (Catholic Jews), and the musical is actually based on the true story of Hein’s mothers. Their interview with the Globe describes a bit about their process, Hein’s mothers, and what it was like for him growing up: Continue reading »

Popularity: 24%