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I genuinely adore that review from the person who paid $1400 to see Waiting for Godot and at intermission was like “this is a waste of my time” and left

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

I guess then people say or imply things with the plays they choose to make? Or maybe that’s just a continuation of doing things.

But I do think this is a bit semantics - do you get my intent here even if my words aren’t exact?

(I also think just a few years ago I wrote off plays as not saying anything, when what some of them were actually saying was “here is how to care for each other in the messiest of interpersonal circumstances”

and that can be a valuable lesson at anytime!)

Is this a thing people would like?

Brecht wouldn’t be happy with me, but that’s fine. Being a full human being means living in paradox.

but right now I need this play as much as I need the plays about climate change, about organizing and labor, about war and genocide, about complicity and complacency.

I need both.

and look, candidly, I’m biased! I’m working on a fun play right now that takes place in a fantasy world where trans people can search for love and the audience knows everything will end up okay

I am very suspicious of theatres and producing orgs that Only put forward plays that ignore the problems of our time!

but I’m not convinced producing or writing one fun play is equivalent to ignoring our world’s problems

if you had asked me just five years ago if there was room for fun, silly, rompish plays that don’t “Say Anything,” I probably would’ve said no but I’ve really come around on this

I will recommend Peking Opera Blues to anyone who will listen

Memorizing this

very excited to have this out there! was a blast talking to Jason about this movie

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
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If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

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A screenshot from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Utena, a pink-haired girl wearing shorts and a school uniform blazer with epaulets, lays on the ground, almost broken. Her fist is pounded against the ground, the arm ready to lift her back up. The captions say “I still exist!”

I still exist!

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) Josh Harder (CA-09) Josh Riley (NY-19 ) Herb Conaway (NJ-03) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Pat Ryan (NY-18) Lou Correa (CA-46) Bill Keating (MA-09) Kim Schrier (WA-08) Jim Costa (CA-21) Susie Lee (NV-03) Darren Soto (FL-09) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Stephen Lynch (MA-08) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Sharice Davids (KS-03) John Mannion (NY-22) Norma Torres (CA-35) Don Davis (NC-01) David Min (CA-47) Derek Tran (CA-45) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Eugene Vindman (VA-07) Jared Golden (ME-02) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Chris Pappas (NH-01) Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern.

But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws.

Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

anyways I understand this is still an important conversation irt cis women, absolutely, and also I'm tired about "gender parity" as a concept when we aren't also having in depth convos about the amount of trans playwrights who exist vs how many are getting produced

forgive me if i'm bitter that we're focusing so much on cis women when this new round of the gender parity conversation started because people misgendered two nonbinary people on sight

AT: the new-play results nationwide... are very close to [gender] parity after all

the nationwide new play results: 51% cis men, 44% cis women, 5% nonbinary, trans, or Two-Spirit people

PANEL 1: MATTIE and a FRIEND huddled behind a rock a wasteland. In the background, the silhouette of a huge robot with glowing eyes looms. MATTIE: Life has gotten WAY worse since every single rich person on the planet decided that the huge robot has to be in charge of everything. FRIEND: I don't like how the robot is blotting out the sun! PANEL 2: Everything gets much darker. MATTIE covers her head. The FRIEND nods solemnly. MATTIE: I also don't like how it really doesn't work very well, and is often raining enormous pieces of itself onto people. FRIEND: Sure. I only really use it for making a grocery list or a spreadsheet or whatever. PANEL 3: MATTIE and the FRIEND leap out of the way of a big falling gear. SFX: THUNK PANEL 4: MATTIE is sprawled on the ground, looking terrified. The FRIEND, also on the ground, shouts up at the sky. MATTIE: That was TOO close. FRIEND: Okay! I need it to be 3 columns by five rows,

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