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variousqueerthings · 1 year

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I watched Medea today with Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels and basically the ending consisted of him wet, tank-top wearing, blood covered (it's his dead kids', killed by Medea), sobbing and screaming and crawling in a puddle created by water continuously falling onto the stage in a rain effect

and her towering over him, mocking how piteous he is

it was

a lot

(was reminded that I am gay)

he also at one point posed great statue style for a solid 20 seconds in front of where we were seated, RIP to the dialogue during that moment, twasnt heard by me and my friend

neither of them came to stage door for covid reasons, which, very fair (I mean, very fair to not come to stage door anyway also), but hope to one day tell them that it was amazing + that the exorcist deserved better

#ben daniels #sophie okonedo #she was so wonderfully manipulative but also the language really sets you up to support her #you're like yeah yeah you're so rig- oh you're gonna kill your kids?#you know what -- go queen i support all your wrongs #medea #cannot find a blood-covered mr daniels #there was a lot of interesting masculinity in this play #lot of interesting femininity but ive been talking masculinity with trans guys in interviews for 4 days straight #so my focus is obvs a lil skewed #but with okonedo it was very much the character presenting different faces of womanhood as an act #to get her revenge by playing on people underestimating her despite knowing she's really really powerful #whereas with daniels he was playing all the male characters so he himself was moving in and out of parts #theatre #personal

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