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Lionel Moncrief. Spy catcher

I created several sketches using my Max plushie for @flusteredbard’s snap snap adventures competition!This is one of them. You can view the rest on my instagram :)

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Kind of shocked and a little bit taken aback by the amount of hate TPTGW is receiving in the tags. You are not “better” or “smarter” for picking the serious play out of the two. In fact, if you feel obligated to pick a dolls house simply because it is the more “respected” title, that speaks more to how limited your ideas of theater and playwriting are. People don’t like to admit it but comedy is the single hardest thing to get right in theater. Every serious actor will say the same. Anyone can get up on a stage and scream and cry or sit in a chair and be slowly rotated on a turn table for three hours like my microwave dinner (in the case of Jessica chastain) but to make people laugh- that is the highest and the hardest honor an actor can ever be a part of. The physical tole TPTGW takes is insane and the actors that put themselves through that eight times a week all while bringing to life genuinely heartfelt and emotionally complex characters- they are absolute geniuses.

These shows are so different I don’t think they should be compared, in fact I don’t think most shows should be compared. But that’s a different conversation. You may have genuine reasons for liking a dolls house better, and that’s great! But all I have to say is if you are going to get in the tags and start demeaning or judging people for picking TPTGW over it. All I feel is bad for you :( watch more theater. Do more theater. Expand your palette and learn to love different forms of art on stage. I can promise you are not getting anything out of coming after a classic, brilliant, and incredibly funny farse that you barely know anything about.

The Play That Goes Wrong: The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society prepare to stage their new production – the 1920s murder mystery 'Murder at Haversham Manor'. However the set is not yet complete and there is no time to finish it off…..the show must go on! With a murder (and a moving corpse) established from the beginning, the murder mystery gets into full flow. However, the props start to disappear, actors go missing and the set begins to collapse around, and often on, the cast. Mayhem ensues, the acting gets worse, and the set becomes increasingly dangerous, but the company struggle on regardless.

A Doll's House: Nora and Torvald Helmer have a seemingly traditional nineteenth-century marriage. Torvald adores his wife, although he belittles her comprehension of the world. However, Nora has lived with a secret for years. She forged her father’s signature in order to borrow money to take her husband to Italy for recuperation after an illness. Her husband, Torvald, is now in a senior position working at the bank and Nora has been paying off the loan in installments. Yet her secret is about to be revealed when Torvald threatens to fire Nils Krogstad, the man Nora borrowed the money from.

Propaganda under the cut!

The Play That Goes Wrong:

Goofy, silly, I love these characters your honor. A second floor of a set falls down.

Silly! Energetic! Disastrous!

It was fun and I had a good time :)

It's the most incredible straight play of modern time. It's the stereotypical murder mystery, but with Murphy's law applied to the actual production- everything that can go wrong, does. We don't simply have the characters on the stage, we also have the actors playing them, who are all so well developed with their own foibles. From "I'm Chris Bean, the Die-rector" until the set literally falls apart, it's the funniest thing in the world, and you won't stop laughing even after you've left the theatre. More than the humor, though, it makes the theatre, and all its quirks, accessible. It demonstrates how much work goes into making a show happen, both onstage and behind the scenes. That appreciation is something very rarely shown let alone celebrated- and celebrated is the right word here. For even when everything goes wrong, and everything DOES in fact go wrong, they keep going. The show must go on, and it does, and it's wonderful. Also the three guys who star in it wrote it, and they're actually the sweetest guys ever, which is a rarity in the world of the arts.

A Doll's House:

The ending really got me! I wasn't expecting it.

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THE MUSIC DANCE EXPERIENCE !!

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softest romance in a grimest show

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Severance | Wolf 359 - Memoria

I will soar, then, beyond this power of my nature, and rise by degrees towards him who made me. I enter the fields and spacious halls of memory, where are stored the countless images that have been brought into them from all manner of things by the senses. There, in the memory, is stored what we cogitate, either by enlarging or reducing our perceptions, or by altering one way or another those things which the sense have made contact with; and everything else that has been entrusted to it and stored up in it, and which oblivion has not yet swallowed up and buried. 

Hera… what was that?

Umm, it’s from St. Augustine. Confessions. I’ve been going through the writing, and -

Which writing?

Well… all the writing.

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the work is mysterious and important

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very good friends

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what’s the worst that i can say?

things are better if i stay

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post severance feeling

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More Severance since I’m still obsessing over that show….

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thinking about severance again…

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A normal office full of normal people who have a healthy work/life balance don't worry about it

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You enjoy the sounds of radar…

Everyone should watch Severance because it’s the best television series out right now ❤️‍🔥

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All my unposted Severance fanarts-

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