#mad theatre

[astuteandkind]

Trephination for the Twenty-First Century is going on tour!

Dates across the UK have been confirmed, with ongoing talks to take the tour out to venues across Europe, and as the #TrephinationTour's ACE funding deadline approaches, your help is needed to show the Arts Council that mentally ill stories told by mentally ill people are viable investments. 

Why is Trephination going on tour?

The mission #TrephinationTour seeks to accomplish is opening conversations about mental health and phenonema freed of diagnostic labels in local communities. These conversations, sparked by the show, will be facilitated in care conversations following every staging and in workshops where Amanda will guide participants through expressing their own subjective experiences.

Why should I donate?

The projected budget for the #TrephinationTour to pay participating artists a living wage is around £20,000, and the more outside funding Arts Council England sees going into the tour, the more likely they are to invest in fully funding the show. Any amount is a show of faith in the mad liberation work of this tour, and truly makes a difference.

How will I be credited?

If you provide it, your name will be listed in the programmes handed out at performances and in the collection of "trephinations" written by audience-participants in workshops at participating venues. 

[cry-ptidd]

” Am I not right to weep? O my children, cursed children of a hateful mother - ”

[broadwaylewzur]

IM ACTUALLY ROLLING WHY IS HE SO STUPID

[royaltea000]

Imagine the entirety of the heavenly army pulling up to huaguoshan and this is who they’re mad at

Qitian dasheng design update ver 2

[vampiremirror]

In my manner of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep him to the point of his madness—a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell. (Mem., under what circumstances would I not avoid the pit of hell?) Omnia Romæ venalia sunt. Hell has its price! verb. sap. If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately...

-Dr. Seward, Bram Stocker "Dracula"

I will be playing Dr. Seward in an upcoming small theatrical adaptation of Dracula (the book, we're not doing the mina Dracula romance), and am really proud of how my make-up and wig turned out!

If you happen to be near Witten WERK°STADT on the 1-2.02.25 or Oberhausen Lito-Palast on 22+23.03.25, you can catch our performance.

Tickets are available under www.blackstage.info

[megamindsupremacy]

Gwen had to say “will you adopt me” to Jessica Drew when they first met because any other dialogue option would have had Gwen being Extremely Gay at her and they could only get away with so much queercoding

[creepydudesinthedesert]

No matter how many times I go to go see Furiosa, I know that I'll never outwatch Mr Hideo Kojima. Man has been in the theater watching Furiosa every time I open Instagram. The absolute madman is single handedly funneling half of the movies budget back to George Miller.

I saw a comment that said "Furiosa is his Bible, and George Miller is his God." And its the MOST accurate thing I've ever seen

[real-odark]

sometimes i think i beat the cringe theatre fan allegations and then i unironically call something mad wicked awesome.

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

Autistic Headcanon (21/???): Sir Pentious (Hazbin Hotel)

"Who am I? WHO AM I?! I am the great Sir Pentious! Inventor, architect of dessstruction, villain extraordinaire!"”

[rantingaboutmusicals]

TAMMY FAYE IS CLOSING ON DEC 8TH

WHAT THE FUCK

MY HONEST REACTION(s):

WHY CHRISTIAN >>:'(

YOU BETTER BE IN A NEW MUSICAL BY THE TIME I GET TO NEW YORK😡😡😡😡😡

[jay-wasstuff]

The official synopsis for s2 + the poster of Louis holding the bloody opera mask 😳

[lobotomizedpunk]

Alan Cumming and crew behind the scenes of "Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical", 2005.

[justarandombrit]

Is it really a musical if you don't want to put every single character in therapy?

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

two questions to ask yourself when you start looking for pre-christian material in medieval literature:

1. when are these texts from

2. when did christianity come to this area

i can guarantee you in the vast majority of celtic-language sources (and others) the answer to 2. is several centuries before 1. and at that point you gotta ask yourself... how likely is it that these people would be writing about something that has not been a thing for them or anyone they know for, like, four hundred years (or, in many cases, eight or nine hundred years), especially given that most of the people doing that writing are not merely passively existing in a christian society but are, yunno, monks

there are exceptions! but there are way fewer exceptions than you think there are gonna be! and the exceptions are almost always extremely nebulous sub layers that can't be disentangled from the other layers (which are christian) with any certainty so are always somewhat speculative!

and most importantly those other layers are interesting too, but if you only ever treat them like dirt to dig through to get to something "real" underneath you're sure gonna be disappointed a lot of the time (and you're gonna miss a lot of cool shit that would be really exciting if this was an actual archaeological dig and not a metaphor)!!

[arosebyan0thername]

If there are a million Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, I am one of them. If there are only two Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, I am one of them (Eva Noblezada is the other). If there are no Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, Eva Noblezada and I are dead 😔

[left-handed-spaghetti]

Watched Swing kids last night

That’s all I wanted to say.