LJ Idol Season 11: Week 3 - Everything Looks Like a Nail

[encrefloue]

Verfremdungseffekt

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

-Bertolt Brecht, though disputed

The inception of my ill, lusterless collegiate acting career resounded with a squealing trio of syllables dolefully mewled through the wan lips of Boy, a role vitally trivial in this nothing-if-not-earnest production of

Comments

[rayaso]

This was such a great mix of personal history with what is essentially an essay. Wonderful combination, and very well done!

[encrefloue]

Happy you found it effective! Thank you very much!

[alycewilson]

We read a Bertolt Brecht play in my Theatre 100 class. Memory is faulty, but I think it might have been "Mother Courage."

[encrefloue]

Nice! I was tempted to bring Mother Courage into this piece, but it started feeling like trying to do too much with it.

[halfshellvenus]

A very nice thought-piece all around.

[encrefloue]

Thanks so much!

[tonithegreat]

This is a new kind of writing here for you and I really like the punch it packs. Keep swinging, my friend. This is well done.

[encrefloue]

Felt good to stretch in a different direction! Thanks for the support 😁

[cnotesays]

I nodded vigorously at your concluding paragraph. Yes. Some days just getting by is where it's at.

[encrefloue]

Thank you! I try to minimize the numbers of those days, but I have to remember to be kind to myself if that's just what life is sometimes.