to be fair, they also talked about other musicals i didnt care about, but I wasn’t feeling it, lmao. i would have been happy with literally any other topic, but i fall asleep during this shit, cant help it

    • vomit_sounds [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Brecht, I think, pushed things in a good direction, not just bc I agree with him politically, he was actually fun to listen to if you got into it, but idk if there is something like that out there nowadays. Especially since Brecht has been laundered quite a bit in his cultural reception afaik. Definitely think things should be more participatory and less consumption-oriented, also theatre industry sucks royal ass. does the US one bully talents into nervous breakdowns as well?

      • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Brecht

        hmmm you have fun taste! but Im not sure I i got any recommendations other then pray you have cool local stuff near you.

        also theatre industry sucks royal ass. does the US one bully talents into nervous breakdowns as well

        hHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. yes.broadway is cut throat, anything off broadway is just as harsh with barely enough pay to live. All of my friend who had big dreams have minimum wage jobs now. we bully CHILDREN into mental breakdowns over this stuff, but thats mostly from parents. its awful its suppose to be about the art and human connection. I wish we could remove the “showbiz” capitalist aspect out of theater and have everyone had well funded accessible community theater. my last place had an all black run theater but now ive moved and its all white people around here :(. lets start a hexbear theater troope lol, no one gets yelled at and its about the art.

        • vomit_sounds [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Awful. Makes me actually mad, even though it doesn’t affect me directly. This system needs to die. I remember the Le Guin story about the one child being tortured for the sake of the a city’s happiness, but obviously we already have epstein, so ig we are at the point of optimizing child mistreatment for stonks-up and grillman’s treats

          I wish I could just do that for its own sake. I don’t even wanna set foot into a Laypeople’s theatre troupe by now anymore, bc even there it’s about one-upping and social prestige (not generally, I just live in a structurally fucked place)