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nonstandardrepertoire · 5 months

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"guilt tripping the audience for behaving like an audience" has gotta be one of my least favorite theatrical tropes. like oh? we accepted the convention that people are acting out pretend scenarios and thus did not intervene when someone "did" something bad onstage? we paid less attention to a character that the narrative told us was unimportant? if we had rushed up on stage en masse to try to stop this event unfolding, the entire show would have fallen apart because you are actually actors following a script and audience intervention isn't scripted? and you want us to feel bad for interacting with the text as the text expects and teaches us to interact with it? no, fuck you, write better material

#this is 100% in response to another text post that i have simply seen Too Many Times #but it is also in response to anatomy theatre #a moment in which i have absolutely despised for almost a decade now #for pulling exactly this bullshit #“none of u intervened in this execution!!!” ok but if we had your show would simply end #so like #the fuck kind of move are you even pulling #we have accepted that we will watch these people doing something fake as tho they were doing something real while still knowing it is fake #that is the fundamental premise of this artform!!!#you're not as deep as you think you are!!!#ugh #anyway #rants #sheer pettiness #the theatah

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