Spider Man Gets Trapped in His Own Net

What happened to the good old days, when Aristotle’s notion of spectacle was satisfied with something as simple as a costume? Wasn’t it Aristotle was said that too much spectacle will “create a sense, not of the terrible, but only of the monstrous”?

Yet here we are creating 21st century theatre that is not only monstrous, but disastrous. I am usually a fan of Julie Taymor creations, but her recent imagining of Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark does not exactly inspire confidence. Read the latest for yourself: U2's 'Spider-Man' Musical Spins Tangled Web of Disaster at First Preview.