Ethan being Mary's husbands assistant also.

he ate that and also in a more literal sense he ate that

It’s a play about watching will brill eat little pastries

he has two lines in the second one so youre really not far off

however nuts it sounds I promise it’s crazier. the problem is the songs are straight bangers

would pay to watch this

The theater company that lives inside my head is awesome

I like that you see this in terms of artistic directors

I’m sorry to ask for more service journalism, but do you know how I could ship this to a friend in the UK?

in terms of figuring out WHY its retreated so much from our cultural memory, the Vincent Bevins book If We Burn has some interesting insight

Naomi Klein talks about it a lot in Doppelgänger, and my first thought was, oh my god, remember occupy? Vincent Bevins new book as well

the conveyor belt of young artists being flung into this meat grinder. auteur theory and the currency of prestige can lead to some very dark places!
but, a thrilling new voice in playwriting, Keenan Oliphant directed it masterfully, I am so pissed I missed BOWL EP at Vineyard.

FIN

the play thrillingly teases its New York audience with mentions of the European theater/performance art world, which to us is impossibly glamorous. Berlin!
And yet, I wish it had dug a little deeper into how the sleek aesthetics of that world are *also* used to misdirect the eye away from (5/?

supposed kindness, helping these people, and above all serving the art. I wonder if perhaps Hassan has read the book? what I felt in the theater last night was that so many audience members laughed with recognition, because this version of “teaching theater” is so widespread across America. (4/?

coincidentally I finished @isaacbutler.bsky.social ’s book last week, so about an hour into the piece it struck me - this is what Lee Strasberg did to people. insisted on public sharing of deepest traumas, created an almost fundamentalist hierarchy that worshipped him, all through an ethos of… (3/?

Much will probably be written about how it portrays cycles of abuse in the art world, especially theater. Like WHIPLASH and BLACK SWAN, it surgically dissects how young artists end up destroying themselves for their work, and use that cruel pedagogy when they themselves get a crumb of power. (2/?

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