Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui

[sovay]

Hey, I've thought of a meme.

Sparked by the fact that I wouldn't actually want to be a Stoppard character—I'd die in a fire or I'd be A.E. Housman—who would you like to be a character in a play by? Why? Whose plays would you absolutely not want to find yourself in? (Nota bene: to be differentiated from the writers whose plays you feel like you're living in already. Given how most of my friendlist seems to be doing, that way lies Oh, yeah? I'll see your O'Neill and raise you Sarah Kane.) No fair just calling Shakespeare.

Otherwise I've stopped sleeping again, which makes the idea of more frequent posts seem even more remote and exhausting. I should still try.

In the meantime: talk to me about theater!

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I could probably also handle being in a Charles Busch play, if need be.

Also, just in case it isn't superfluous; no Sartre.

[sovay]

I could probably also handle being in a Charles Busch play, if need be.

I don't think I've ever seen a play by Charles Busch. Tell me about him?

Also, just in case it isn't superfluous; no Sartre.

Yeah. Just end up in the wrong conversation at a convention if you want to do No Exit.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Charles Busch... umm.

You know the way The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is trying to be cool about being retro-Fifties scifi, and succeeded at the time, and watching it now has another unintentional layer of Eighties retro layered on top of that ? Such (admittedly limited) Busch as I have seen has a similar flavour of enthusiasm, filtered through a talent for dialogue reminiscent of Ed Wood, and has lesbian vampires in.

[sovay]

Such (admittedly limited) Busch as I have seen has a similar flavour of enthusiasm, filtered through a talent for dialogue reminiscent of Ed Wood, and has lesbian vampires in.

. . . I'm going to have to see this.