With rainbow tinted eggs stuffed with kisses, condoms, panties and sex toys, this show honors Easter Eve, when Jesus Christ is Born Again, welcomed back to life by the Original Easter Bunny, Mary Magdalene, ushering in a new Spring. It’s also Passover, the Week of Wine and Crackers and Shaking off the Shackles of Slavery. And it’s Persian New Year (well, within a few days), so we celebrate that too. It’s also La Primavera, the festival of the “first green” blossoms of the year when, according to classical Greco-Roman mythology, the radiant Goddess Persephone (Proserpina to the Romans) soars up from the Bowels of Hell, where her Bad Boy husband Hades (aka Pluto) keeps her all Winter long. In Eleusis, the place of the erotic Eleusinian Mysteries, the Holy ... is “born again,” rejoining Mother Demeter (Ceres), fair-haired fertility Goddess of the Earth, who is so ecstatic to embrace the Fruit of Her Loins that She showers the world in Spring! La Primavera! Carissami Amiche… C’est la printemps, mes amants…
And then everybody gets Spring Fever. Spring is mating time, dating time, time to fly with the birds and the bees through the flowers and the trees, all buzzing, chirping, blooming and dripping with lustful fecundity. Spring! The word itself makes you want to leap for joy, strip off your clothes and dive into romance, especially after a long cold Winter. In Spring, all religions celebrate some sort of vital, faith-affirming holiday of rebirth, resurrection, renewal and return, both complementing and contradicting the season’s natural blooming eroticism. Yes, although the forces of Sex and God are usually quite at odds, sexuality and spirituality are, in many ways, just opposite angles of the same Easter egg. The mystical experience and the erotic experience are the most intense in human life; both connect desire with awe, love, anguish, ecstasy, terror, pain and extreme logic-defying pleasure.
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