"I can't believe I'm kin with Racetrack Higgins"

What I lack in content I make up for with extensive character development that never sees the light of day. I follow from @willow-free !!

[userboxer]

[theatreism]

as long as you’re mine

[lesbianelizabethfrankenstein]

ohio? like, from bandstand? you know that’s not real, right?

[shiningnorthernlights]

“Well, comrades… We’ve had our fun! Lived, laughed and loved! Friends of my youth, when shall we meet again?”

(insp.)

[jeremyjordamn]

We can sail away tonight, on a sea of pure moonlight.

[waitformereprise]

You wanna talk to her? Yes! Go on... Orpheus? Yes? Don’t come on too strong…

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

much ado about nothing is so underrated. successfully scamming your friends into falling in love by just gossiping about them really loudly? golden. beatrice friendzoning benedick in front of everyone they know and then confessing her love like two minutes later? hilarious. the friar telling hero to deal with her shitty boyfriend by simply faking her own death? fucking superb. random villain who has literally no motive other than he just wants to fuck things up? phenomenal. there is nothing about this play that is not incredible.

[theatreism]

asaka, grow me a garden.  please agwé, don’t flood my garden. erzulie, who will my love be? papa ge, don’t come around me!

[tibbyschlegel-deactivated202102]

Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

NT Live: Angels in America: Perestroika (2017) dir. Marianne Elliott

[burtonsdoodles]

“Santa Fe” - finished.

Another Newsies moment drawn and finished - this one is Jack at his most overwhelmed as he begs for an escape from the injustice of the harsh world he lives in. ‘Santa Fe’ is my favourite song in the musical - the pure desire and despair that is portrayed is so powerful - it’s not a song in which you hear - it’s one you feel every time it’s on.

🌄

This is probably gonna be the last Newsies drawing I’ll do for a while - since I’ve got uni work that I’m supposed to have been doing and haven’t been - so my focus needs to be on that. Though I’m sure I’ll find another moment which I’ll want to try draw soon - I can never stay motivated on the same thing for long. We’ll see what happens.

[raelynnnix]

[stagemanagerssaygo]

Hey hey, it’s Renee!

[tastefullyoffensive]

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf

Let us just appreciate that this person’s dad didn’t know when they would be home and so he couldn’t plan for them to be able to join the family for dinner, but he knew with no doubts that dear sweet Meatloaf staying in that exact position for hours was an absolute in this scenario. Truly, that cat was named well.

[pizzacatsandboobs]

one of my favorite posts on tumblr over the course of 5 fucking years.. clearly i need a life

[disgustinganimals]

Meatloaf is a reliable cat and did not steal the money for selfish reasons. A rare friend.

[yourshipsaregross-blog]

I love Meatloaf. :)

[whiska-aliapoh]

Bless Meatloaf

[coloradoqueen]

Reblog Money Meatloaf to get surprise $40

[cdaae]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen

[niamhmccormack]

Riveting stuff, huh?

[best-guess]

September 1st, 1989  Dear Diary:

[yesknopemaybe]

[fleurdeliser]

#I ship benedick/beatrice as much as I have ever shipped anything but at this part I always want to yell MARRY THE PRINCE#SOMEONE MARRY THE PRINCE#I’LL MARRY THE PRINCE (tags via ihavealotoffeelings)

[gingersnapwolves]

can we talk about how well he handles the rejection though

like, she doesn’t even give a reason besides “I really don’t want to be a princess” and he’s just like “okay” and respects the shit out of her choice and goes on to help set her up with Benedick

I really wish Shakespeare had written a sequel wherein everyone teams up to get Don Pedro a wife XD

[hugealienpie]

He’s so outta left field about it, I wonder if he just wanders around asking all the single ladies to marry him. and Beatrice’s face is just like, “wait what?”

[angualupin]

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

[angualupin]

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.