Sleep no more sketches

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“Similar to the transformation of the homosexual pansy to asexual sissy, the sexualized mannish women of the pre-Code era were transformed into asexual tomboys or cold maiden aunts. Lesbian-film theorists Patricia White and Rhona Berenstein have argued that another method for hinting about lesbian desire in Code-era films was to keep the lesbian character offscreen altogether. In Rebecca (1940) and The Uninvited (1944), for example, queer women are dead by the time each film begins. As the other characters search for these women (or seek to understand their deaths), a sense of dark and taboo secrecy begins to assert itself, and audiences are left to guess exactly what that secret might be. Various moments in the films imply that the dead women were intimately involved with other women―but neither the films nor their characters explicitly define what those relations were. Letters and memos indicate that Production Code officials were aware that these relations could be read as lesbian and worked with filmmakers to keep them obscure enough to earn the Code’s seal of approval. Rebeccca also has a more obvious onscreen queer―Rebecca’s housekeeper and personal maid Mrs. Danvers, played by Judith Anderson, in a long black skirt and a tightly pulled-back hair bun. In one sequence, Mrs. Danvers takes the new lady of the house through Rebecca’s meticulously preserved bedchamber. Almost as if hypnotized, Mrs. Danvers lovingly caresses Rebecca’s pillowcases, her combs, and even her sheer stockings and underwear, ‘made especially for her by the nuns in the convent of St. Clair.’ Mrs. Danvers never specifically says that she was in love with her former companion, and the word lesbian itself is never spoken. But her obsessive, creepy devotion to Rebecca is made quite clear.”

Punchdrunk LA Update: The Central LA Area Planning Commission is hosting a public hearing at LA City Hall today regarding the use of The MacArthur as a performance space with permits for alcoholic consumption. There has been some community opposition, including absurd statements by those who have never seen Sleep No More that it is “clearly a brothel… that promotes human trafficking.” The hearing’s large supporting document (https://t.co/WxjE7Pd53h) references Colette Gordon’s abstract: “Touching the Spectator: Intimacy, Immersion, and the Theater of the Velvet Rope” which refers to a few Tumblr blogs including To Manderley Again and Blood Will Have Blood They Say. 

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When fumbling with my perfume samples, I was suddenly hit by the striking resemblance between Slow Explosions by Imaginary Authors and one of SNM room:

Slow Explosions captured the smell of the mortuary slab room behind the funeral home on Gallow Green.

It must be the high-pitched saffron, sometime it strongly resembles formaldehyde. The rest of the perfume reminds me of some weird combination of medical tinctures, ointment, and dried woody notes.

Thank you, Imaginary Authors, I finally found a cheaper way to relive the show, especially after the price hike.