We all still like Dr Seuss. We like him more than a goose. We’d read his stories with an ox. We’d even tell them to a fox. We like his stories on the page. We want to see them on the stage. We have that chance in the UAE. Come to The Seussical with me!
The enduring appeal of the American writer's skill for wordplay decades after his books were written suggests that tastes have not really changed, despite the high-tech devices through which most of us now experience the world. Part of the appeal is because we usually see his work performed – whether via parents' bedtime stories, through films such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas, or, as we reported yesterday, in a musical to play in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The ancient Greeks used to believe that epics like Homer’s The Iliad were far better experienced via a public recital rather than read in private. It seems in this, as with so many of their influences on modern life, they had realised a fundamental truth.
