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Portuguese theatre makers, naming their poetically sinister immersive show:

"A Morte do Corvo 🖤"

Me, who recognises a romance language when she sees one but apparently doesn't know what an edgar allan poe is:

"death of the crow 😊"

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #edgar allan poe #look in my defence #corvo probably ALSO means crow #and magpie and rook and jay and jackdaw and all those other assholes #AS WELL AS clearly in this context meaning raven #right? #RIGHT??

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remember the brilliant beautiful vibrant performers of the burnt city, especially the transgender and the non-binary and the otherwise gender-non-conforming among them, how exquisitely they performed, how plainly they were put before us in their variously gendered roles without commentary or explanation or uproar?

remember when renowned antitrans hate-monger jkr turned up to the show one night with her dear friend hbc?

anyway, i'd say i have mixed feelings about this, but actually it turns out i really DON'T

#viola's room #punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #immersive theatre #immersive #actually i was chatting with some pals the other day about the pronunciation of viola #this casting at least makes me more hopeful that they might go with my preferred option #given that hbc played olivia in trevor nunn's movie version of twelfth night #still an extremely disappointing choice #support trans people #support trans artists #support trans kids #support trans rights #support trans women #support trans men #Instagram

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Taylor Swift:

Polyxena, Polydorus, and all of Hecuba's other slaughtered children:

#the burnt city #burnt city #punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #immersive theatre #immersive #cassandra #polydorus #polyxena #taylor swift #also the town wouldn't have killed cassandra for her doom-mongering #because they didn't BELIEVE her doom-mongering #because of the god of gaslighting #this lyric is an absolute mess #honestly #except it turns out most people don't reeeeeally know who cassandra was anyway #simply cannot relate

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maybe not quite the quickest i've ever dropped £50 on something, but i certainly only paused for as long as it took to say "you're fucking joking"

#the burnt city #burnt city #punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #immersive theatre #immersive #merch #soundtrack #stephen dobbie #colin nightingale #what an absolutely beautiful thing #so frivolous #so overpriced #so pretty #so must-have #will no one rid me of this turbulent theatre company

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The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor Swift, 2024)

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #fernando pessoa #edgar allan poe #mário de sá-carneiro #YOU SEE IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL POETS #AND THEY'RE ALL TORMENTED #YOU SEE? #YOU SEE???

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#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #pessoa #fernando pessoa #still very much on my pessoa bullshit #please make sure you visit casa fernando pessoa if you're in lisbon #it adds some nice show context #(and some fuckin brain worm chaos)

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me when i am politely informed that there is in fact an acceptable, greater-than-zero, amount of running and shoving that will be tolerated from audience members at amdc

(it went against ALL MY TRAINING, but a) it is extremely liberating to go sprinting down a corridor actually and b) it is honestly impossible to commit to a full pessoa loop if you're just going to be polite about it)

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #pessoa #no i am not proud of myself AT ALL #we were a DISGUSTING audience on that loop #myself very much included there #but i did at least receive confirmation that my shushing of other audience members was appreciated actually #so that's something #and nobody died #sooooo

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ambient noises from the amdc waiting rooms

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #yes this has temporarily become an amdc blog #i only went for a week though so will probably run out of thoughts in time for viola's room #unless i go in absolutely the opposite direction and become a fernando pessoa fan blog #which isn't completely impossible at this point! #Youtube

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#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #fernando pessoa #visiting the museum really gave me some good insights into the show #but i kiiiiinda wish i'd followed pessoa BEFORE finding out what he was like #very hard to take the drama seriously at points #knowing what a weird li'l guy he was

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things that the barman in a morte do corvo did tonight

danced, a whole bunch, a LOT

was tall, a whole bunch, a LOT

combed his hair and drank his drink in a manner that dragged me straight back to the burnt city

very politely helped me to my feet when my efforts to get out of the way resulted in me falling over a piece of the set

repeatedly invited me to sit down, as truly no mask can conceal that mine is the visage of a woman in her forties who hiked down a literal fucking cliff this morning

gifted me one (1) single beermat, which i then apparently proceeded to clutch to my silly little lost heart for the entire rest of the evening

SIRS, I CANNOT HELP IT, IF THERE IS A BARMAN CHARACTER IN YOUR IMMERSIVE THEATRE SHOW THEN I *WILL* BE PROPPING UP THE BAR AND I *WILL* BE MAKING HEART EYES AT HIM, IT IS JUST 👏🏻 WHO 👏🏻 I 👏🏻 AM 👏🏻

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #vasco #barman #sorry not sorry #also you should go to sintra #it's delightful as heck #(and makes lisbon seem flatter by comparison) #but be VERY CERTAIN if you decide to hike down from the palácio nacional da pena #it is at the top of a literal fucking cliff

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i am enjoying a morte do corvo, well worth trekking out to lisbon for, but i am absolutely terrified at any given moment that the cast might somehow know that this is constantly revolving inside my head while i am in there

#a morte do corvo #immersive theatre #immersive #lisbon #portugal #who the hell is edgar #edgar allan poe #(poe poe poe poe poe poe poe poe poe) #eurovision #austria #teya and salena #Youtube

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i don't wanna see normal theatre anymore, i just wanna see former punchdrunk performers in weird li'l food-based dance shows where they bake a sticky ginger pudding live on stage, and when you ask a question about the recipe, the director comes round with his phone afterwards so you can take a picture of it

if you haven't booked to see may contain food may contain you yet then you really need to get on that PRONTO, there is not a more joyous 90 minutes to be found anywhere in the world

#post-punchdrunk pyramid scheme #sonya cullingford #simon palmer #protein dance #may contain food may contain you #i got to put the spices in the pudding #it was THE BEST #i'm gonna make it for the cross country team next season

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#viola's room #punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #immersive theatre #immersive #no live performers tho #colour me interested rather than jazzed

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#punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre

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If you can hear this picture, we're friends.

#the burnt city #burnt city #punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #immersive theatre #immersive #i can listen to it on my phone #but it's just not the same without aeggy's distant screams

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#punchdrunk #punchdrunk theatre #watch this space #word on the street reckons we're in for some news shortly

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