“both sides are suffering” really? because one is buried under rubble without any access to food, water, sanitation products, no fuel for ambulances, no electricity to support incubators for preterm babies, no proper beds or equipment for major surgeries, using vinegar as disinfectant, relying on phone lights to operate, has run out of body bags, had their largest bakery which received humanitarian aid bombed immediately after while the other is dancing and feasting and rejoicing and making tiktoks in clean clothes and brightly-lit rooms with electricity…
Unpopular theatre opinion: intermissions are bad and I wish we could just have a 2.5 hour performance uninterrupted, like people manage perfectly well at movie theaters. It always just kills my emotional immersion. Set changes and costume changes valid, but the art form could adapt in other ways. Or making the intermission experience somehow also part of the performance? Just something more interesting and intentional than dumping people out into the lobby to buy m&ms.
I do like intermissions myself, with all the getting to chat with my companions about the show and releasing excitement and leg stretching and restroom breaks and all of that, but there are probably a fair number of musicals that don’t need to conform to the 2 act + intermission format and might be better off without it.
I can’t imagine Les Mis or Wicked without one (although Les Mis is abnormally long anyhow) given the sheer power and finality of Defying Gravity and One Day More, but I think many shows with subtler Act I finales could be done continuously without anyone batting an eye.
I also do think intermissions can be quite helpful in emphasizing time skips between the two acts, but shows without a time skip between the two acts could work well continuously.
And for what it’s worth I have seen a handful of people argue that movies (at least the long ones) should have intermissions, but that is a whole other discussion.
the ACTORS need the break 😭😭 movies don’t have intermissions because they aren’t being performed live. theater is highly physical and even if it isn’t like a high energy show they’re still under blinding lights for hours and sweating to death. they need a break to breathe lmao
This… shows are designed specifically so that even main characters get an offstage break to hydrate, pee, catch their breath, change costumes etc, between numbers. Even the most fit and skilled actors can’t perform at 100% for 3-4 hours straight without a break. On top of that, the musicians in the pit don’t get *any* breaks between scenes, and having played both on stage and in pits you know what’s physically easier? It’s not playing the French horn or oboe for 15 minutes straight, that’s for sure. Actors, dancers, musicians, tech workers - they all deserve good working conditions, too.
you know there actually is a meaningful difference between ‘men’s’ and 'women’s’ deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens’ plays better with pit hair and doesn’t pill up in it and 'womens’ tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.
realizing this was such a paradigm shift for me and i have to wonder what other “uselessly” gendered products are like this, where they actually are different in a way that would be useful to consumers but some marketing department decided instead of just saying what the difference is, to prescribe which you need based on the most arbitrary metric, so nebulous that what it even means varies from person to person. as if they think you’re too dumb to look at “anti-chafing powder formula” and “lightweight gel formula” and decide for yourself which one would work best.
what do you write someone whose people is dying - who is a victim of genocide? what words can begin to encompass it? ive shared the diary of writer and school teacher Eman, from g aza, because i have a few more followers here than on twitter and i want people to read the words of ordinary people living in p alestine, so their words never go unread or unheard, or forgotten. she has expressed that she writes her diary on social media as a form of resistance against i sraeli propaganda and misinformation. the strength of people in g aza is unfathomable - but it is extremely unfair that they have to be, that they live (and die) through such atrocities.
if you’ve missed it, i will put some of her previous posts here again
her latest posts say that she doesnt want to keep writing the diary, because she has lost hope. i have gone back and forth on if i should publish those screenshots here. to be clear - i dont want to ”protect” anyone living outside of this ”war”/genocide from the realities of what is going on. we can look away because we want a break. they get no breaks. however i dont want to be inadvertedly diminishing someones personal sufferings as if it is a PSA about boycotts or other such post.
in her latest post she is writing about how she feels helpless and hopeless, suicidal - even if there was an end to the siege, she has no hope for the aftermath. i cant paste the link for some reason, but her twitter @ is SometimesPooh, as you can see in the screenshot, - if you can, please write something. something from one human to another.
i want to tag this, but its clear that zi0 nists look through the tags on here and if she gets even one hate comment, that would be one too many. im asking followers who see this to read her words and to reply if you are able
