It's spooky timing as JP sponsors scary drama
Haunted by the buyout of Jefferson-Pilot Corp.?
Tortured by the thought that this venerable company's headquarters is leaving?
In a state of fright over possible layoffs?
Has JP got the remedy for you!
It's a Halloween ghost-fest.
Jefferson-Pilot is sponsoring the Oct. 20 opening night of Triad Stage's "The Turn of the Screw" and has invited community leaders for complementary admission and hors d'oeuvres that night. An e-mail invitation was distributed by Triad Stage the morning after JP's Monday announcement that it is being bought for $7.5 billion by Lincoln National of Philadelphia.
The Henry James play, ostensibly written about hauntings and evil in an upper-class Victorian home (it was written in 1898)it has been interpreted as a meditation of the nature of paranoia and morality as well.
Scheduled long before JP's announcement, the play can remind us all in Greensboro that it only takes a "turn of the screw" to upset our comfortable corporate equilibrium.
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Oh, my. The puns coming to mind are almost endless.
Posted on October 14, 2005 4:36 PM