Poor Yorick, I knew him well...

[londonali]

(Icon courtesy of Jereeza, who has inspired me)

Updates: Went to the Royal National Theatre on Sat. and saw a performance of Alan Bennett's The History Boys, which was incredibly well acted and was a beautifully done production, but was overall, in my own humble opinion, a bit too smug and self-satisfied. It's the story of a group of young prep school

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[maegwen]

is the fact that if you take a bunch of boys and their male teachers, and throw them all in the same room for years and years and years, they will inevitably start to fancy each other, and then become very angst-ridden as they question their sexuality.

I found this extremely guffaw-worthy :)

I haven't started writing a bit, hrmmm.

Too much worrying, not enough production lately.

[londonali]

clearly, what you need is a DEADLINE OF DOOM!!!! *cue threatening music*

[citabria]

I was looking for a piece of myself in the play, and I couldn't find one any where, and to my own way of thinking, good art (and plays in particular) should be able to reflect part of yourself back at you--they should be trying to get beyond individual upbringings and in-jokes, and more towards the fact that we all share universal things in common which are True.

So you don't think The Vagina Monologues is "good art," then?

[londonali]

Yeah, well, calling anything "good art" is sort of setting yourself up, isn't it?

But even men have a feminine side (if not an actual vagina), and even if they're not even remotely in touch with their feminine side, they've got mothers and sisters and aunts and lovers and wives and girlfriends, etc. etc. which makes the play universal enough to be relevent to the entire audience. It doesn't hurt to be able to see something from a different perspective...

but ah, there you go. Maybe I just undid my entire argument right there.

[citabria]

::grin::

I had a feeling I'd catch you with that one!