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my name is travis. i go to emerson college, where i'm studying theatre. my passions are playwriting, dramaturgy, radio, libraries, and boys.

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i slept for like 2 hours and since then i’ve been making this huge dramaturgical tool for YOUARENOWHERE and its 7AM and now i want to make more shit. fuck.

[agayperson]

just tryin’ make performance like this plz.

[agayperson]

wow haven’t been on here in awhile.

am i coming back?

[tristesse-and-distress]

“They used to say of Oscar Wilde that when you got down from the dinner table you felt funnier and wittier and cleverer. Now a lot of brilliant people make you feel less funny, less clever, less witty, because they’re so clever, witty and funny. But he had the opposite effect. A bit like what Shakespeare said about Falstaff, ‘not just a wit, but a cause of wit in others’.”

Stephen Fry (via asnowflakeuniqueamongsnowflakes)

[agayperson]

this sermon isn’t of much interest to me, but i’m obsessed with the image.

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tonight’s midnight delight: a bavarian theatre academy production of rent

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Not sorry.

[whysosirris]

This is the greatest thing ever created… Follow dopemagco

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this is a poem called WHEN YOU’RE A TRANS WOMAN WHO WRITES

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Let it pour from the heavens, that hot dark rain! Bathe me in red! I will drink the wine of their sacrifice!

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Denis O'Hare attends the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

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open poll!!! nsfw and tmi lol sorry

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Everybody’s Got the Right

[agayperson]

I have hooked up to Spring Awakening, Bare, and the Smash Season 1 soundtrack.

Highly recommend.

[fuckyeahgreatplays]

Do you have any tips on analyzing plays? When I don't have discussions like I do in school about plays, I never know where to start.

I’m no academic but I am a nerd for theater. I tend to look at the same couple of questions at the beginning:

Who wrote it?- Young Jean Lee, a Korean woman, wrote a play called Straight White Men. That same play means something different coming from her than if, for example, an actual straight white man wrote it. What’s the difference of context when Branden Jacobs Jenkins, a black man, writes blackface into his show than if a white person did? A lot. 

When was it written?- Historical context matters. Vinegar Tom is dealing with the Salem witch trials but was written by a woman in the mid-70s. Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a criticism of hypocrisy and puritanism in 1882, but there’s a reason we get modern revivals of it. 

What’s XYZ doing there? Why is Johnna in August Osage County? Why is John set in Gettysburg? I also like to look at what gets repeated in the show- butterflies in Mercury Fur, The Crucible references in Speech and Debate, and think about why. Plays (or at least good plays) don’t do this accidentally. 

These lead into my constant focus on what the women or POC in the show are doing. Are they carrying the plot, or are they serving someone else’s story? Do they show up as set dressing? Are they active or passive?

Hopefully this gives you some things to look for and think about. Happy theater-going!

[agayperson]

ALSO

go read Backwards and Forwards

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