So in the Egyptology group chat this morning, we were having a discussion on Amenhotep II’s ‘mesh underwear’ that he’s depicted wearing under a sheer top cloth. They’re made of Gazelle leather, and each hole is hand cut with a modesty panel for butthole and structure. This led to some back and forth about examples, like this one:
Soldiers are depicted wearing them too:
And then we came across one with much larger holes cut in the leather:
Which led to a discussion about Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep II being balls out in flexible leather fishnet style underwear….
Glad that Laios sees his sister show up fused into an unholy monster and says "that is sick as hell though I give this 9/10 for being a bit over designed." Marcille meanwhile seeing the same thing says "booba 🥵"
falsettos is so funny to me because for most shows you can make the joke that it would be so much shorter and easier for all involved if they just went to therapy but not in falsettos. mendel weisenbachfeld is so bad at his job that he broke the meme.
The cube starts very uniform and rather out of place as it seems just I bit odd to the audience.
But as it gets ripped apart it becomes clear to the audience how it is just a collection if blocks that are used by the characters to play pretend.
This shows Marvin's attempt to control everyone by viewing life as a game and trying to get everyone to play along to his delusional view on life.
After Meldal is engaged to Trina, he tries to draw her out of the fictional world Marvin has created by physically moving Marvin's blocks and fighting with him in 'a tight-knit family reprise'
As trina breaks free from Marvin's childish world, more props are introduced on stage to signal her newfound freedom from him. She gets to move into her new life with Meldal, and u see them decorate their house together (which is incredibly sweet).
The second act starts with a set made from the cubes arranged in a dolls House like formation as if Marvin will continue living in him fauls reality.
But Marvin himself tears down the formation just before 'its about time' to show how he's developed and is awhere that he can't live life as if its a game.
In the second act it is clear that all the characters are living in reality instead of playing Marvin's pretend both due to the important topics Charrlotte is trying to fight for and the increased use of props spread out across the stage.
(I love their little house plant collection)
When Whizzer gets ill, the set completely shifts to be highly realistic with no use of the grey blocks at all. This shows how Marvin can't ignore things anymore and has to face Whizzers health.