#in terms of embodying a sense of urgency and contagiousness and reversal of norms and disintegration of social structures

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I don’t know if I would have ever counted as a theater kid exactly because I couldn’t sing/wasn’t really interested in musicals and was too shy to ever really fit the stereotype or hang out with people who would’ve been considered theater kids but I did do theater as a hobby over a lot of years while in school and I still have a lot of fondness for theater as a medium and I wish it got more appreciation for what it can do and how it’s different from movies/tv. It makes me sad that people’s primary association with theater is typically like broadway musicals or Shakespeare (which I do tend to enjoy) and whatever their school picked to be the play every year when they were in school because I don’t feel like those represent very well what the medium has to offer in terms of being an innovative art form. People have this perception of local niche artsy community theater being kind of cringe and poorly made and sure some of it’s like that but honestly the performances that have stuck with me the most have been at those places and I think people often seriously underrate how much talent and ingenuity exists at a local level and the amount of legitimately great plays out there by current play writes that you’ve never heard of even if you might have to wade through a bit of stuff that’s not as good