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oimg thank you! that makes me really happy to hear, @growleaf and i had like... the pick-up-and-play factor really close to the front of our minds when putting it together, i'm so glad it's worked for you and your table's enjoyed it!!!

there's a quote about john cassavetes attributed to peter falk that says "somebody said 'man is god in ruins,' and john saw the ruins with a clarity that you and i could not tolerate." i think that artaud was able to see the ruins of the world with such a clarity that he was desperate to find a way to express. i love that his work is unapologetic and caught up in violence and danger and a determination to escape what he viewed as false reality. i love that he put it so clearly and so plainly when he stated "no one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, invented, except to get out of hell." i love (and find funny) that he hated politics because his work with all its surreality and transgression is so politically active and alive to me. how could one read "van gogh: the man suicided by society" and not trace the seeds of antipsychiatric thought in the work, especially knowing that he himself was continually institutionalized and begged to end the electroshock treatments he went through? i love that his work and theatre of cruelty is sometimes considered "impossible theatre" because i think it inspires a challenge to consider what that untouchable metaphysical "impossible" thing can reveal in performance, even if we cannot ever fully articulate it, the attempt to reach it (like the lacanian real) is worthwhile. i think that artaud was failed by capitalism and institutions and being deemed "mad" and i think that his work is understudied even among theatre and performance studies circles. i think that the mother courage silent scream and the jet of blood are doing the same thing

holy shit

I kinda love that tbh! Now that I’m thinking about it n stuff I guess what could force them together is John? Like. They both go and ask him for a spot to play at his bad as solo performances but he can only do one show per week so they kinda reluctantly agree to merge into a band for the sake of convenience. Cam becomes their drummer cuz you need a drummer and Gideon asked super really hard

In the caption it says he always sticks the landing and I’m trying to figure out what that could have to do with it. Maybe rather than it being a super strength thing it’s more that he’s just.. solid.. like you go to punch him and your hand bones shatter kind of thing. So he could jump down from a building and instead of breaking his legs the ground cracks underneath him idk

It’s probably been 10 years since I’ve read any version of Iphigenia’s story (wow just like the Torjan War fr… PARALLELS…..) so I was excited to check out a few translations of the obvious sources (Eumenides’s plays on the subject). It feels a little like coming home to an old friend. If you’ve got more you like I’d love to hear them!