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mel brooks description for the main characters of the producers (1967)

from "all about me! my remarkable life in show business" (2021)

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

darkcomedies

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

seanofbeankeep

Imagine getting expelled from school for being an atheist and years later that school builds a monument to you but of your dead drowned corpse with your dick out.

They do it all classy though but still

mariacallous

“Theatre is a living art, so it is hard for us to understand the terminology of performance history. One had to be there. Every artistic ‘ism’ that hit the theatre was a dynamic reaction to the ‘ism’ that came before. Naturalism swept away what had become empty romantic melodrama, and in its turn was tested by symbolism. Brecht’s ‘Verfremdung’ (which literally means 'make strange’, and which we know as 'alienation’) threw down a challenge to a fatally complacent audience at a particular moment in history. Expressionism, absurdism, the Theatre of Cruelty and many other forms were experimented with and all for the same reason: namely to penetrate the carapace of the audience’s ease, to implicate them in the way the world had turned out and to involve them in the possibility of changing it. Theatre is a present-tense transaction. Its effect will always be relative to the times with which it interacts. In order to keep alive, the theatre has to resist the need for permanence and comforting answers. It should be like an arrow that never lands or a liquid that never sets, and our job is to keep chucking the arrow back in the air and keep stirring the liquid. Today’s challenging innovation becomes tomorrow’s hardened complacency and before you can say 'avant-garde’, the guard is up.”

— Dame Harriet Walter, Other People’s Shoes: Thoughts on Acting

nosimpincurly

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

catherinebunnington

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

bestiolin

sivavakkiyar

Benjamin & Brecht

midnightvrose

baebyaga

alfredsnightmare

martha-dobie

Listen

undeadhousewife

nohoperadio

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*

copperbadge

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.