*arthur miller walks into the 1947 tonys* are ya winning, all my sons?
First episodes of audio drama podcasts be like what’s up I’m GAY i live in a TOWN and I just saw a GHOST
weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums…..theatre best portrays loneliness
hamlet: [walks onto a movie screen] now i am alone
me: i guess
hamlet: [is left on an empty stage] now i am alone
me: fuck yeah you are
As I pulled my cart towards Poland I couldn’t help but wonder: is it possible for a modern woman to have kids and a career?
Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Audra McDonald drinking in bathrobes is a whole mood
I feel like I need to tell everyone how brilliantly the Globe incorporated a deaf Gildenstern into the 2018 Hamlet and then force all of you to watch it
ok, so Gildenstern is played by a deaf actor, Nadia Nadarajah. he* signs all his lines, and either Rosencratz interprets for him, or the person he’s talking to says something that makes it obvious what he just said, depending. how each character reacts to Gildenstern is completely in-character and often hilarious
- Claudius and Gertrude are intensely awkward around Gildenstern. they obviously don’t know BSL so they just gesture emphatically but aimlessly when they talk.
- Hamlet, who of course is friends with R&G, *does* know BSL. he starts off by signing fluently whenever he’s talking to them but, as his distrust of them grows, he signs less and less until he’s only signing the equivalent of “fuck off” whenever he talks
- Polonius just shouts really loud whenever he tries to talk to Gildenstern
it’s all brilliant and adds another layer of humor and pathos and you should all watch it
*casting at the Globe right now is gender neutral so I’m just going to use the character’s pronouns
guys I know I’m wittering on about this but the thing I want to emphasize is that there is no tokenism here. they didn’t just shove a deaf actor into a speaking role so they could pat themselves on the back about how progressive they are. they went to the effort of fully integrating Nadarajah’s deafness into the story so that it not only fit organically within the narrative but actually enhanced it. watching Hamlet’s signing disintegrate as his trust in R&G disintegrates adds a depth to that storyline I’ve never seen before. Claudius has exactly the awkwardness of someone who thinks of himself as a good person and therefore thinks he’s being kind and generous with his accommodations for disability, but has never even once actually asked a disabled person what they need, which is so on-point for his character it hurts.
I know Michelle Terry gets a lot of hate mail for her policy of race-, gender-, and disability-blind casting, but fuck all those people. long may that policy continue.
spaceoperetta replied to your post “Oh excuse me yes, thank you Met it IS time to stream the entire ass…”
Bet your ass I spent three hours of work with it on my ipad just off to the side. Rhinegold theme is catchy! I’ve been meaning to watch this production for LITERAL YEARS
Opera Playing On the Side is the only way to work in March 2020
THIS STAGING IS OFF THE WALL, LITERALLY. Rakes, rakes on rakes on wires!!!! I can absolutely not reconcile that the hair & costumes are from 2009. But this machine tho