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lesbianlanval · 3 years ago

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‘The audience is observing the characters’, ‘the characters realise they’re characters’, ‘they’re all trapped and doomed and dead all along’ boring!! boring! wanky! find a better way to express your sense of powerlessness!

the characters are alive because they matter to you! their fishbowl is infinite and you only portray a glimpse! if they were ever alive at all they never truly die!

#I just think firstly in terms of theatre and interaction with audiences. what is the Point #women in black does this for the sake of horror right? you the audience are watching the play. the play is what summons the woman to kill #iconic. Hamilton also does it bc it’s already talking about legacies #what is the fucking point of doing this with hamlet??? hamlet and Romeo and Juliet etc are about the way these characters react #to relatable and human circumstance. that’s why everyone’s still shitting their pants about them 400 years later.#they are not characters in a play because they have to believe everything they do matters So Much to the complex web of people around them #yeah Horatio noticing the audience would be a twist ending. bc it would fucking ruin it lmao #and in terms of writing I know it’s not what you guys mean but it has this bizarre moralistic bent #if you ever kill a character you’re dooming them. if you write bad things happening to a character it’s equivalent to actually doing that #it’s very. culturally Christian thoughtcrime vibes. thoughtsin #like can u guys not map everything onto narratives of sin and blame and guilt #Hadestown does not need this bc the point of the characters in Hadestown trapped in their loop is that it influences YOU to change #them noticing and being horrified and trying to escape is pointless bc that’s literally what they’re doing. it’s not horror.#it’s just striving for a better world #I feel like this goes hand in hand with interest in time loop fiction but the whole point of that is that you CAN change things #and people won’t always act the same way #anyway creating a character is not playing god and writing a story is not placing a character on an endless suffering treadmill.#you guys sound like Mormons

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