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Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui
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!
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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Artemis 81 you CAN find on DVD, however. It leans towards sf, and stars Hywel Bennett as a struggling horror writer (sorry if you've read up on it already!) and Sting as an alien "angel". Hard to describe the plot. It's not as accessible as Penda, I think. Three-plus hours long. God knows what the public of 1981 made of it.
Smith, Rudkin, and Master and Margarita? Wow. Did you catch Smith in "Christopher and His Kind" earlier this year?