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bella-monoxide · 5 years

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Tag Game

As per usual, I was tagged by @saveyoua-seat 💖

1. What was the last movie you watched in theaters? Birds of Prey with two awesome friends!

2. What’s your favorite game to play? I‘ve never been a gamer. Which I regret now, because - have you SEEN Mass Effect?! I played a lot of rummy and Kniffel (no idea what that is in English), but that‘s pretty much it.

3. Chocolate or Vanilla? Why is it always these two - and why does it never specify what is meant exactly? As a flavour in coffee? As a scent/fragrance? Pudding?!

4. What‘s the last show you binge-watched? I don‘t binge-watch shows. I found early on when I started watching shows that I need time to process between episodes.

5. Do you have any pets? No. My cat of twenty years died in 2017. Nowadays I am always happy to visit prople who have cats.

That was my furry Schätzelein. Kyra-Yoda.

6. What‘s your favourite fairy tale? Der Eisenofen, the B-Side of my Dornröschen (Cinderella) record. „Eisenofen“ would be iron oven in English.

7. Who‘s your favourite superhero? Ugh. I have no idea. Elastigirl? Violet, her daughter? Hm... Tough to pick one out of the many great female superheroes... *the sarcasm is strong in this one*

8. Who‘s your favourite Disney princess? Dean Winchester. Duh. Next question.

9. Where’s the first place you’re going to go after the social distancing is over? Huh. I honestly think it will stay weird for a while; and besides, everyone‘s usual activities will change anyways, cause even after this first bout of social distancing and other measures is over, Corona won‘t be.

10. Cookies or Cake?

For the record: I would like to have cookies with Trevino sometime.

+ 10 questions from @teenwolf-theoriginals (I wasn't supposed to answer these either, but @saveyoua-seat did, so why the hell not!)

1. Which show could you watch over and over? Supernatural - and TWD, up to a point.

2. Favourite song lyrics? Bella Morte by Twiztid. My tumblr URL is based off of that one.

3. Favourite season of your favourite show? I can‘t decide with SPN; TWD would be season one.

4. What never fails to make you smile/happy? Getting a kudos email! Looking at cats. Petting my sister‘s cat, Pauli, who is like eighty percent plush and only twenty percent cat.

Walking outside, spying little flowers, stones and the like along the way. Watching the sun set. Listening to certain songs.

5. how are you doing with all that’s going on in the world (virus, having to do social distancing, etc)? Ok, so far. Ironically, I didn‘t have to change much. The thing I am struggling with is how other people‘s fears affect their behaviour towards others.

6. we all love new music to listen to, name an artist that is underrated/you think people should check out? Vancouver Sleep Clinic (Vapour is a great song, featured in an episode of Arrow, a scene betw. Roy and Thea in the empty club - a perfect fit for the scene!); The Cinematic Orchestra (Channel 1 Suite; their song To Build A Home is featured in Step Up - Revolution); Nosaj Thing (Aquarium - also featured in Step Up Revolution); Kovacs - Diggin; Koop - Whenever There is You; Santogold - Starstruck. I‘m sure I could go on and on.

7. TV-Show or Movie? No idea how to answer this one. I only started getting invested in shows in 2014, but I‘ve always loved movies.

8. Favourite holiday? Don‘t really have a favourite - a lot of them are religious. 🤷🏻‍♀️

9. A song that describes you? Song for Sharon by Joni Mitchell.

10. Describe your tumblr in three words? Writing, Shows, Sarcasm.

I am tagging @jupiterjames , so they will not miss the picture of Pauli! 😻

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aintzane411 · 7 years

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spoilers for voltron season 4 under the cut!

Episode 1:

BOM keith!!! We knew about it but still aaaa

why is everyone being a dick to keith let him live

theyre keeping him so busy just let him take a nap

btw this is 100% not real shiro this is a clone this is wrong

i need a hairspray AU with coran as corny collins

lance had to have been a theatre kid cmon

why does kolivan’s mask have 3 eye holes? he doesnt have 3 eyes does he?

other guy has 3 eye holes too

rip other guy

i s2g keith is gonna get back and everyone’s gonna rip into him but this poor boy just needs some oxygen and a nap jfc

coran laser noises!!!

NOT! MY! SHIRO!

ew ka//ura like kudos to shippers but *sigh*

keiths bom suit lowkey looks like he has boobs like i am totally here for trans!keith yes pls

kolivan insists he doesnt bind during missions bc its dangerous and that just adds to his stress levels poor bby

there are. furries in this rebellion. god damn it

“undetected” my boy keith doesnt do “undetected” guys

pls just let keith be happy omg

whyyyy are they furries??? like the artists knew what they were doing cmon

im gonna cry if this is actually shiro like i love kuron to death but please no

im so scared omg

let! keith! rest!!!

“he can finally be the leader i was unable to be” god keith ily im sorry babe

sheith hug!!!! leading into a group hug!!!!

but lets be real im terrified like keith is leaving the team what the fuck

Episode 2:

aaaa flashback!!! Katie!!!

o shit this is called Reunion we’re gonna find matt this episode!!!

ill punch this kid callin pidge a nerd fight me bro

MATT FLASHBACK

pidge is so cute holy fucking shit

also tag yourself im matt’s “big fucking muscles”

ooh heres the scene they showed at nycc does that mean the kaltenecker scene is in the season too?

my smol smart child im love her

smol smart badass child

stop! misgendering! my! child!

pls give pideg her brother back

“paladin pidge” how cute

IM LOVE PIDGE

plant gun!

portable xray!

o shit matt was an officer!!!

i like how matt’s “rebel officer transponder” picture is him in the galra prison gear lol

omg matt “what the garrison doesnt know wont hurt them” i love

“what dad doesnt know wont hurt him” MATT

im gonna scream if matts dead

dont you dare

theres still 9 minutes left dont you dare

FUCK

please plesae please please god

FUCK THESE FUCKING WRITERS

STUPID EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH JFC

its almost 3am and im glad im emotionally dead inside or else i would have cried like 4 times already

THERE HE IS

omg its just like ree’s canon holy shit lol

there he is holy shit thank god

this is. so pure.

ofc matt has a bounty on his head jfc

“lets show this guy what the holts are made of” god fucking bless

ok now you guys gotta find sam too cmon

niceeee good work guys damn

SCIENCE NERDS OMG

Episode 3:

okay pidge has her brotehr now lets get my boys back in the right lions kthx

ok so after rewatching s3 i think haggar and zarkon are possessed by these creatures

omg. omg matt is straight for allura wtf this is the Last Thing I Expected

shatt hug!!

technically kuratt hug but shhhhhhhh

omg lance calm down

oh boy here comes super zombie zarkon rip

“wayward son” omg

milkshake reference yes

wait please give me langst and have lance feel like hes being replaced by matt please i need more langst in my life

omfg kaltenecker scene!!!!

its even better than the clip omfg

i want lotor to come to the good side i want him to be a good guy let him have mommy issues with keith

yessss bls tell hunk how much of a genius he is thank

oh nooooo i bet pidge normally plays the game with lance but shes busy with matt aaaaa D:

i changed my mind i dont want langst

second ship??? oh boy

third??? OH BOY

matt needs to wash his hair

smelly boy

shoutout to ree and matt

i need more info on shiro/kuron omfg please

YASS PIDGE UPGRADE VOLTRON WITH CLOAKING YES

omg omg matt is gonna pilot green holy shit

damn rip narti there goes our main physically disabled character besides shiro ugh

WHERE IS KEITH BRING MY BOY BACK

omg i think lotor is gonna end up on team voltron whoa

Episode 4:

WHERE! IS! SHIRO!!!

WHERE! IS! KEITH!!!

“besides playing keith is really easy, just act moody” dont call me out like this

ok lance was 100% a theater kid but always an ensemble member never a lead, for which he was bitter about and made up for the fact by being way too over the top as an ensemble

is. is coran gonna do drugs?????? what the fuck????

omg corans room is adorable

ewewewewew brain bug omfg ew

space mall!!

omfg his fucking accent jfc

hunk “well it rhymes so its gotta be true” ily hunk

please never use any of this advice for real theater stuff smh

stick alien!

omfg an “on ice” performance holy shit

fuckin stick alien zarkon and haggar holy shit

careful guys you might break an arm

like i did smh

“loverboy lance” beautiful

“SHIRO THE HERO” THANK

even tho its not shiro but shhhhh

stop! throwing! hunk! under! the! bus!!!

the fact that no one is questinoing coran’s personality just proves that none of them would notice the subtle changes between shiro and kuron so the theory still stands

jesus christ fucking meta “except for you shiro youre the most popular character ill never get rid of you” fuck you writers

varkon! mermaids!

i miss keith :(

ep 4 moral of the story: dont do drugs kids

let! bibobi! live!!!!

Episode 5:

yesss give me keith!!!!!

omg voltron and bom and rebels are all doing a big mission together yes

me: suddenly remembers the “and lance dies so theres that” interview also me: panics

ROLO!!!

different VA??? not norman reedus i think???

hunk! being! badass! yes!!!!

im still v suspicious of this shiro smh

FEMALE GALRA COMMANDER!!!!

shes pretty oh no

why tf does there gotta be furries in the rebellion

oh fuck i almost thought matt died jfc

this commander looks like a steven universe diamond

KEITH MY BOY!!!!!

bby im proud of you for training with the bom but im so glad youre back aaaaaaaa

babe there he is aaaa!!!!!! im love keith!!!!!

now give me the real shiro jfc

and get lance back in the blue lion jfc

i s2g if matt dies

i s2g if lance dies

eyyy hell yeah go acxa

eyyy hell yeah go keith

this is going too well something is gonna happen im so scared

im really scared damn

Episode 6:

hhhhhh im terrified oh boy here we go

this one is called a new defender oh fuck

white lion?!?!?!

will keith be the white paladin?!!?!?!?!!

i just really want everyone back in their original spots bls

wait wtf is going on i zoned out for a bit its 4am

its gonna be those alternate reality being things again istnt it

lance “what are those” nice meme reference

shiro now is not the time to stay behind and analyze fuckin get ur team out of there god damn it now theres a force field around the planet fucking hell

this isnt good. this isnt good at all. and the music sounds so ominous oh god

im so scared

lance i s2g you better not do anything stupid

lance i s2g you better not do antyhing stupid

bls no a//urance

lance i s2g you better not do anything stupid

KEITH YOU BETTER NOT DO ANYTHIGN STUPID EITHER HOLY SHIT

shoutout to coran for just having to hang back while all of his loved ones risk their lives

lance i s2g

im so scared holy shit

LANCE DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID

w h o a

I LOVE KEITH SO MUCH

shoutout to coran for just accepting that alluras telling him to leave when everyon ehe loves could very well die

im love keith and his new leadership skills he learned in the bom but DONT YOU DARE DIE HOLY FUCK

no one is allowed to die

keith dont you dare

keith DONT YOU DARE

KEITH

holy fuck oh my god hes ok hes ok holy fucking shit

o shit

o shit lotor is gonna join the coalition i fucking called it!!!

holy fuck that was a lot of emotions and where the fuck is shiro fuck you writers fuck you

#voltron #voltron spoilers #voltron season 4 #season 4 spoilers #vld season 4 #tagging everything i can think of #vld spoilers #god that was stressful

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lauraxxtennant · 7 years

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don juan in soho

Review & lots of spoilers below

Ok. So, you guys know by now that I was, let’s say, cautious about several aspects of this play prior to seeing it.

I was completely turned around on one of those things, though, and this was the inclusion of music/dance numbers and an actual. Duet. Between dt and adrian. This duet was the highlight of my night. I know!!! That’s bonkers!!! I thought I was going to find this the most embarrassing moment of my life, and yet!!!!!

Let me be clear, I love musicals. I love plays. I don’t usually find it beneficial to the material when a play tries to shoehorn in a musical number. I usually think it’s best for straight plays to leave the musicals down the road to their singing and dancing, and just act the damn thing. Added to this, the fact that david tennant is clearly desperate to be in a musical lmao made me think, ‘oh god, this is gonna be a disaster, he can’t sing, it’s gonna be embarrassing.’ HOWEVER. I fully admit that he sounded good tonight. Really really good. DJ & Stan basically get stoned and sing a (brief, TOO BRIEF) semi-romantic duet under the stars at the end of act one. It’s the best point in the play, and no one is more surprised by this than me.

There’s another brief musical number in the play by the cast (not including dt) where you see a couple of real life, floppy-haired teenage dt photos projected in the background (none that we haven’t seen before.) I also really liked the tiny snippets of music from the opera Don Giovanni, which gave me the shivers. I feel like this could’ve been used to greater effect actually; if the ~moment of revelation~ and the ending of the play were stronger, bringing in those strains of Mozart could’ve had a greater impact, really set a nice tone of doom about the place. But perhaps there were practical limitations on how much they could use of that music anyway; this play is, after all, not the opera Don Giovanni.

Before seeing the show, I was also dubious about what I’d heard re: the staging. It’s quite a sparse set, which I think is fine actually, and there’s an absolutely ridiculous moment where david tennant flies into the air on a rickshaw (yes, really) which clearly made him very happy so i can take that all in good fun lol. Therefore, the only gripe I have about the staging has to do with the whole statue-coming-alive thing (yeah...really.) More on that later, though.

The third thing I didn’t think I was gonna like but did, was the hospital scene. DJ receives a blowjob from Lottie (played by Dominique Moore, who is very funny in the scene preceding this where she actually gets to speak) whilst chatting up the bride (or, ‘the fox’ as DJ charmingly calls her...) whose wedding reception he has just ruined in his pursuit of her. The logistics of it are frankly ridiculous - nobody could get away with that in a hospital waiting room lmao, blanket covering the action or not. There’s a large bag sitting on the seat between him and the bride, hiding Lottie’s ministrations from her, but the rest of the people in the room can see what’s going on. So it’s bonkers. But it’s also hilarious. I’m incredibly impressed that david tennant managed to offer up such a variety of expressions over the course of several minutes, whilst also having a conversation with the bride. Several times you think, ok, he must be nearly done, this is the orgasm face...but nope, he keeps right on going, and he doesn’t even blush. Stellar receiving-blowjob acting right there. This is the funniest part of the play, imo.

As always, dt’s comic timing is great. But I think he mines more laughs through his delivery and physical comedy than the writing actually offers him. He deserves much better material. This play is a comedy but I get the impression it thinks it’s funnier than it is, or at least it thinks it’s more quick-witted and worldly than it is. Admittedly this comes down to personal taste as much as anything. I did laugh aloud in places, but there were several times I heard someone a few rows back really, properly laughing at something I considered pretty tepid on the humour front tbh.

As I mentioned in my summary earlier, the staggering amount of alliteration in this play nearly made me lose my mind. Once you notice something like that - something repetitious in someone’s writing - it is so hard to tune it out. I know this sounds like a very nit-picky, minor thing, but it was honestly so irritating!! The line that’s been thrown about a lot in the promo stuff/reviews, ‘Satan in a suit from Savile Row,’ is truly just the start; that line is said by Stan, but DJ gets most of the excruciating stuff, including a dozen or so lines informing us that DJ cannot possibly be racist because he’d do it with, among other alliterative ladies, ‘a babe in a Burka.’

Talking of racism. There’s a terrible line about how DJ wants to fly to Alaska to have sex with a ‘furry little eskimo,’ which I didn’t find particularly pleasant or funny.

The supporting cast is very non-white for a West End show, so kudos to the casting director for that, but it is unfortunate that DJ’s brother-in-law, who I have seen described in a review as a ‘black thug’ (!!!) is the maker of DJ’s demise.

There’s also a really tasteless scene where DJ is interacting with a homeless Muslim man. This is the scene I was referring to when I said something turned my stomach. He dangles his £6k watch in front of his face and tells him he can have it if he blasphemes Allah. I’m aware this is a direct parallel to a scene in Moliere’s Don Juan (wherein he offers a coin to a beggar on the proviso the beggar concedes to blaspheme; interestingly this scene was removed from performances at the time.) But the execution of this scene is just so tasteless and unpleasant. Oh, and also dt imitates the Muslim man’s accent at one point. Grim.

Though DJ, in his monologue near the end of the play, riles against hypocrisy, he is so self-righteous in this scene that it’s almost unbearable; he goes on and on about how Allah hasn’t done anything for this homeless man, so why can’t he insult him (at first he wants him to call Allah a cunt, then he de-escalates to ‘twerp,’ neither of which the man does. Thankfully DJ throws him the watch anyway, ‘because of his integrity.’ But that this rich, vile, atheist man could shout in this other guy’s face about his religion...it’s horrible. Stan agrees, so at least our ~moral compass within the play (dubious) is on the audience’s side. But still, it’s very uncomfortable to watch.

For me, this was the only shocking moment in the play. Though this play is billed as being filthy and shocking, there is nothing inherently shocking or controversial about a fictional portrayal of a womanising, amoral, cynical, privileged white male with an excessive sexual appetite, penchant for prostitutes, and evidently an addiction to drugs and/or drink. Those characters are, let’s face it, ten a penny in literature, on stage, and on screen. DJ’s liberal use of the word ‘cunt’ might shock some in the audience, granted, but I think this play thinks it’s more shocking that it is. The language in the play is clearly something dt relishes getting to perform, and I am not offended by swearing at all, and honestly quite like hearing him going for it (apart from that one time he calls a prostitute ‘fuckface,’ not that she seems to mind.) But it’s sort of a bit laughable, that lines like ‘I’m just a cunt with an eye for one,’ are trying so hard to provoke laughter and/or shock, when...it’s just not even that great a line? A lot of the ‘funny’ lines are phrased pretty awkwardly tbh.

Other absurd moments:

DJ declaring himself a radical feminist. (this is funny because aside from Marber’s use of that word in this one instance, the rest of the play seems to take place in a contemporary world where feminism never happened.)

The statue coming alive. I hated this lmao. I mean. It’s all hallucinatory/figurative I guess (i hope??) because it’s his own voice bellowing from the statue that DJ hears, foretelling his impending doom and indicating how much he despises/fears himself, but the surrealness of the statue moving about and pedalling him into the air on a rickshaw, it’s just...it’s embarrassing

‘I’m not a rapist, I don’t grab pussy!’ getting a huge laugh. a) the bar is truly low when you have to say at least the dude is not a rapist, b) i hate donald trump as much as anyone but this is one of those poorly-phrased lines i mentioned that aren’t actually very funny. It felt a bit shoehorned in tbh.

Elvira, DJ’s wife, is an oddly-conceived character. I understand that reflecting the convent-girl origins of this character in the modern day was gonna be tricky, but the modern-day equivalent Marber comes up with is not particularly believable. Rather than a nun he’s lured away from the convent to marry/take the virginity of, as in Moliere’s play, in this play Elvira is a charity worker who, after a two-year pursuit, DJ has finally persuaded to marry him. The reasons he wanted to marry her are the same as in the original: she’s a virgin, and won’t sleep with him before marriage. Once they’ve had their honeymoon, he’s off to bed Croatian supermodels, done with her now that he’s finally had sex with her.

The suspension of disbelief comes in twofold: firstly, we have to accept that Stan and Elvira’s brother throwing around the words ‘she was an innocent’ and ‘she was pure’ (and the implication that she has now been corrupted) are likely phrases to be said these days. I mean, come off it. Secondly, Elvira’s speech - about DJ being terrible but at least he opened her up to physical pleasure! At least he showed her how magnificent all these filthy fantasies she didn’t know she had could be! She won’t be with him now she knows what he’s really like but she still loves him and always will! - all of that nonsense, it just didn’t ring true. Especially as we come into their relationship just as they are back from their honeymoon and he’s sleeping with someone else, so we don’t even get to see evidence of how he charmed her in the first place (she references that he was sweet and kind and acted so in love, but we never see these traits in DJ at all.) The actress playing Elvira, Danielle Vitalis, didn’t give a particularly strong performance imo, but I honestly don’t know how much of that was really her fault, given the ridiculous lines she had to say.

The final thing that rubbed me up the wrong way was the monologue near the end. The disdain for millennials from middle-aged male writers made a jump from online articles to stage with this one, or, if not targetted at that generation specifically this time, then at least at this digital day and age we currently live in. It elicited rapturous applause from the audience, and yeah, the ‘welcome to my vlog; today i bought a plum’ line was amusingly delivered, but I have no time for a character who is morally bankrupt claiming the moral high ground simply because he finds selfie/social media culture undignified and lacking in class. I might agree with him on his comments on the value of privacy, but this dude is shamelessly shagging his way through Soho (christ, I’ve caught Marber’s alliteration bug) and so I think his sermon on hypocrisy is a little tone deaf.

Are we expected to equate the unapologetic, relentless pursuit of ‘skirt, or occasionally, trouser’ with a life lived to the full, a life celebrating ‘free will and answering to nobody?’ It’d be one thing if DJ genuinely loved women, as in loved in the way dt’s Casanova loved women; a seducer and a bit of a cad, sure, but one who at least respected and admired rather than objectified women. But DJ generally seems to have contempt for them bubbling under the surface, and in any case, the only reason he is able to pursue this kind of life - one sexual dalliance to the next, a snort of cocaine here, a cigarette and a scotch there - is because his father is rich and can fund such an elite lifestyle. There’s also your typical middle-aged male writer cynicism about love dressed up as a philosophical, salient point about the unnaturalness of monogamy as opposed to the natural state of man being to ‘hunt his prey.’ Marber, mate - you ain’t saying anything new, here. Writers just like you wheel out this faux-philosophy about the human condition more times than I can count, and all it ever really tells me is that you wish you had the guilt-free option to have an affair yourself.

I say all this because it’s quite hard for me to decipher what Marber really wants us to take from this play. DJ is warned of his reckoning, promptly feigns contrition to ensure his father doesn’t cut him off, but feels no actual guilt or compulsion to change his ways. He then eventually gets his comeuppance, and Stan regularly tells us how despicable he is, but I still get the impression that, in spite of Stan’s warning, ‘please don’t be charmed, he’s not a loveable rogue,’ that’s exactly what’s expected of us. Indeed, Stan says at one point ‘just as we were starting to warm up to him!’ (I think after the homeless man scene.) But I…..was never charmed. Not even for a second. I don’t think anyone could be? Honestly? Because he clearly is despicable, he has no compassion, is selfish to the extreme, has received all the luxury and privilege being the heir to an earldom affords him, with none of the responsibility, has never worked a day in his life, and has only limited affection for even the one person closest to him (Stan, an employee he never pays and treats abominably.) As dt has postulated in interviews, DJ is a sociopath. And yet we are subjected to a lecture from him on the indignity of a world of selfies and vlogs and hypocrisy, as though those things, vainglorious though they can sometimes be, are more sinister and morally corrupt than his objectification and dismissal of every woman he comes across. It’s a bit hard to swallow, frankly.

DJ has great hair, tailored suits, tiny red pants, and the innumerable benefits afforded to him by virtue of being played by david tennant. But he’s never particularly charming. We never see anything of the kindness and gentleness that so charmed Elvira into marrying him. We never really see him seduce anyone, aside from Lottie (this seduction is essentially him groping her boobs in the guise of being a ‘specialist doctor,’ complimenting her assets and telling her she shouldn’t change herself in any way [she’d mentioned she wanted a boob job]) and the only other time we see him in a sexual situation is with four prostitutes, and he has evidently paid for their company. But we hear he has had sex with three different women a day for the last 25 years, and that he is ‘extremely fuckable.’ I mean, yes, to look at him, clearly sexy af. Yet I feel there was a twinkle in the eye missing for anyone to actually be compelled to go for it with him; for comparison, rather than returning to dt’s Casanova again, I’m now thinking about Tom Ellis in Lucifer, who does play a loveable rogue, and the contrast is pretty clear.

And I bring this up because I’m left here thinking: if there’s nothing really interesting about DJ, if he really is just one-dimensional, and selfish, a destructive man with delusions of self-importance, who’d ‘fuck a hole in the ozone layer’ if he could, then....why? Why are we interested in this man? Would we sit there and watch two hours of a female character doing the same thing? Would anyone even bother writing that, let alone consider producing it? I don’t think they would.

It’s an entertaining play because dt and adrian breathe humour into a script that is, occasionally, lifeless. They can’t save every line, but their chemistry is great and their relish for these parts is evident. The play isn’t as shocking or as funny or even as filthy as you’d expect, and I don’t think it taps into the moral quagmire it thinks it does; honestly, it’s pretty standard stuff. I still don’t know quite what Marber’s going for. Of course, there doesn’t necessarily need to be a ‘message’ or a twist or a social commentary to be figured out within a production. But I think if you’re adapting something that plays with the idea of a libertine repenting through fear of death/hell, and if you feel that won’t resonate in a contemporary setting, then the stakes ought to be raised in another way. The spectre of impending doom looming over him is pretty lacklustre, and, given that DJ would rather die as he lived than profess a simple apology to save himself, the ending isn’t very evocative at all - it’s actually a bit dull.

Best bits:

DJ & Stan’s duet

dt’s hair

stan’s endless exasperation at DJ’s antics

the hospital scene

the tight blue suit

dt looking so happy flying overhead in a rickshaw (despite the ridiculous statue driving it)

stan’s last few lines

i cannot stress this enough: dt looked super hot

Worst bits:

the homeless man scene

the patronising tirade against this vain new world

the elvira plot

the statue coming alive and foretelling his doom a la marley’s ghost in a christmas carol

the lacklustre ending

3/5 stars, could’ve been a lot better. with a different writer. and plot. 😂

#don juan in soho #laura's theatre adventures #ok exactly none of you really want a three thousand word review of this play lmao #but that's what i have provided #goodnighttttttttt

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mredwinsmith · 7 years

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No Shave November: Hirsute Art History Edition

Or, Should We Say Art Hair-Story Edition?

I must-ache you a question: Are you familiar with No Shave November, also known as Movember? It’s an entire month dedicated to not shaving your facial hair! So, because we are a community of artists and art lovers, we want to conclude this celebratory hairy month with an artful twist: art history meets No Shave November.

So sit back, relax and wax your staches. Here is a hair-raising roundup of famous artists and artworks that would make the creators of No Shave November proud. Enjoy!

Long Locks Leonardo

Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk by Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1512

Presumed by most historians to be a self-portrait, the sketch above shows that Leonardo da Vinci had some seriously long locks going on — from the hairs of his chinny, chin, chin to the top of his head. It’s doubtful that this bad boy beard was grown in 30 days, but da Vinci’s facial hair definitely reveres the mission of No Shave November.

Striking Stache Salvador

Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), New York, circa 1950s. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)

Salvador Dalí’s artwork is truly remarkable, but his mustache is also pretty “on point.” This surrealist knew how to make a statement, both on canvas and in life. His art and facial hair are both recognizable to this day.

Seductive Stache

The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, oil, circa 1844–1845.

Gustave Courbet? More like, Gu-stache Courbet. We love the dramatic look, and we are sure the ladies dug it, too! If there were hipsters back in your day, Courbet, you probably led the pack.

Very Haired Hermit

The Hermit by Mikhail Nesterov, circa 1889.

A stark landscape from Nesterov shows why anyone would want to grow their very own face scarf. The beard of this figure known only as the Hermit sure looks mighty warm. The added bonus of being a cold-blocker is a solid reason to take part in No Shave November.

‘Put a Fork in It’ Stache

The Wounded Poacher by William Merritt Chase

Even with a head wound, William Merritt Chase’s poacher looks positively debonair. Gotta be the stache. There’s only one word to describe it: glorious. Can you picture him twisting the ends of that luxurious face pelt as someone refreshes his bandage? We can! Talk about a most manly stache perfect for Movember!

Stache d’Élégance

Self-Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens, oil on canvas, circa 1639-1640. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

From his beard to his expertly coiffed stache, Peter Paul Rubens knew how to dress to impress, and we aren’t talking just his wardrobe. He probably went through a container of wax a day to get that facial hair so pristine. And all we have to say is, worth it.

Feminine Facial Hair

Frida Kahlo (1910-1954). (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Kudos to Frida Kahlo for making facial hair so gosh darn gorgeous! From her fabulous brow to her subtle stubble, she knew how to make female facial hair a work of art in its own right.

The Scrooge Stache

Elderly Man Wearing Large White Collar by William Merritt Chase, circa 1875

William Merritt Chase clearly loved his staches, as you can see in The Wounded Poacher featured earlier in this lineup. Here’s another of the artist’s impressive beard depictions, this time of a grump of a man in a giant white collar. The mad gaze and mad locks come together for a terrifyingly impressive portrait.

Bearded Blanket of Emotion

Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1889. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Against his iconic brushstrokes and blue color palette, Vincent van Gogh’s bold beard positively glows. It even helps lead the viewer’s eye into the composition, as you take in the radiant beard and let your gaze move up to those intense blue eyes of the artist. Yowza.

High Class Upper Lip

Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, circa 1889.

What makes the subject for this painting appear more hoity-toity: his upward glance away from the viewer that just about screams snobby, or neck injury, or his furiously furry mustache? You be the judge.

The Monet Stache

Claude Monet (1840-1926). Photograph by Nadar in 1899. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

But really, Monet is so much more than just a pretty mustache. Just take a quick gander at that killer beard! Picture him now, walking through his beloved Giverny gardens, dressed in an all-white, three-piece suit and sporting his signature green shades — oh, and of course meditatively combing his fingers through those lustrous locks of his chin puff.

Serious Stache

Portrait of Benjamin Rush by Edmund Tarbell

Have you ever seen a mustache look more unyielding? The subject’s firm expression is perfectly matched by his finely styled mustachio. The portrait screams “power,” so if you want to look as if you’re a key playmaker, then rock a formal facial hairdo like so.

Wondrous Whiskers

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by George Frederic Watts, oil on canvas, circa 1868

Can you picture it: ol’ Thomas looking in the mirror, a small pair of scissors in hand as he trims his sideburns and tailors the edges of his beard? The grooming is worth it because the final look is straight up class.

Soulful Stache

Self-Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn, oil on canvas, 1669. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Because who doesn’t love a good soul patch — especially one accompanied by a curls-for-the-girls mustache? Now it is crystal clear why Rembrandt van Rijn loved making so many self-portraits. With locks like that, wouldn’t you?

Beautiful Bristles

Self-Portrait by William Merritt Chase

And to conclude this list in true bewhiskered fashion, feast your eyes on this self-portrait of our facial hair-loving friend: William Merritt Chase! I just want to stache this one away in my pocket for later. (Get it?)

Which one of these famous art hair-story examples is your favorite? Tell us in the comments!

And, be sure to check out the facial hair of our very own modern-day favorite, Johannes Vloothuis, in his video workshop series streaming now on Artists Network TV.

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