...a deathly serenade...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
lower left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan
Van Eyck or his brother Huber Van Eyck, (145 x
51 cm) Oil on oak.
This play (Tentatively titled: A Big To-Do)
is the unfinished work Franz was writing, having
been commissioned by the Burgtheater to write a
play for their 2013 summer season. An article
written in the Austrian press had a quote from a
member of the Burgtheater that said, "Franz is
going to mistreat us, just like the other ghost of
our countries literature. He is clearly a British
version of the humourist lineage. He will come
and secretly write a play that is not of our
parliaments agenda in mind. Parodies of parodies
of parodies, where will the jokes stop!" Upon
hearing of this in the newspaper, Franz decided
that he would not finish writing the play and
instead sent the commissioner of the Burgtheater
this unfinished writing, including the message:
"This is all you will receive, read into what you
will. I'm too busy being happily influenced by
your countries ghosts and eating chocolate to
finish! Keep your Euros and your politics!" This
message is like much else of Franz' work,
devastatingly original but constantly making
allusions to Artists he loved, what this excerpt of
the unfinished play means - or even the message
and subsequent refusal to complete this play - is a
mystery Sherlock Holmes would have struggled
to conclude. Original, he was gifted with an
ability to parody a parody with a nod to other
Artists and even cliches, his works are running
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