Pounce
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What is ITW about?Other than the obvious plot, what do you think Sondheim and Lapine are trying to say?
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IwantheGoldenTicket
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haha depending on how you look at it i guess BUT......
my group who just did it, we think it's about other things. like the wolf and little red is all about sex. and giants in the sky is about puberty and growing up.
also basically the whole story is about straying from the normal path, and taking another one (going into the woods) and learning all these things that you would have never learned had you not strayed from the path
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Salome
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Its about parenting,about growing,about rebirth. truley anything Sondheim writes (except Forum and Anyone can Whistle) is "about"so many differetn human journeys. one thing sondheim concentrates on in his work is the need to connect.
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Silver_Stag
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Generally, it's about whatever you want it to be about. 
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Pounce
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| Silver_Stag wrote: | | Generally, it's about whatever you want it to be about. |
No...no...that's a cop-out. 
Are the "Woods" a metaphor for anything or is just a convenient location for the action?
I think Salome is right about parenting and growing (growing up). Not sure about rebirth however, but it does deal with transition in life as when people leave you such as in death. Little Red and Jack are young and naive as they cope with the dangers of the world and find themselves having to assume responsibility for their own lives. Rapunzel has difficulty in coping with a world from which the Witch shielded her for so many years.
It also deals with consequences of our actions and how they reverberate in our and others lives. The chain of actions led to so much misery that all it required was for someone to not repay for a perceived wrong or simply not to act in self-interest. We see that as the Baker tries to dissuade Jack from taking revenge for his mother's death. But what I found interesting was how many lives were lost to protect the one life Jack's. If Jack were given up at the start, assuming that would assuage the Giant, several lives would have been saved. Jack certainly wasn't innocent but some couldn't see giving him up as serving the greater good. The Witch was very pragmatic about it and wanted to hand him over to the Giant.
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Salome
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rebirth is indeed part of it.
fathers living in sons....mothers giving way to their daughter's lives..etc.
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Pounce
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| Salome wrote: | rebirth is indeed part of it.
fathers living in sons....mothers giving way to their daughter's lives..etc. |
Maybe...but I think it is a very minor part. In the show, we can see the "curse" of the previous generation passed on to the next so an effort is needed to break the cycle. I really get no sense of rebirth as a theme to the show. Something of the former generation is passed on but next generation owns themselves and make their own decisions and recognize the mistakes of their elders which probably impact them today.
While not mentioned in the show, I couldn't help thinking of the Arab/Jew conflict which seems to rage over the generations starting back thousands of years ago. Tit-for-tat and each side giving a litany of injustices and blame.
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