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exploringstyle · 2 years

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Favorite Theatre Piece - Post #1

**CW: Discussion of Anti-Semitism, Nazi Regime

**Spoiler Alert for the current West End production of Cabaret

This summer, I studied abroad in London and experienced a ton of professional UK theatre. Among these pieces, one stuck out as my favorite experience in a theatre that I've ever had! This was the currently running West End production of Cabaret, at the Playhouse Theatre turned Kit Kat Klub. This production of Cabaret is like no other you've ever seen, with immediate full immersion into a gritty, sensual nightclub. There was a complimentary shot at the door, pre-show nightclub acts in every corner, multiple themed bars, and a stage setup that was fully in the round with three turntables!

Aside from the stunning fully immersive setup, I was really enamored with the way the show used theatrical devices and the intimacy of the set to create jaw dropping narrative moments. During the tense scene between Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz where they discuss their engagement-party-turned-Nazi-uprising, the Emcee entered with a bottle wrapped in glass. This gave the impression that this scene would end in a happy reconciliation of their relationship and a marriage. The Emcee raises his foot to smash the glass, and there's a blackout and the sound of smashed glass. You feel relieved! Everything will be alright between them, they'll still get their love story. Until the lights come back up. There's confetti everywhere. And a rock has been thrown through the window. An anti-semitic hate crime has occurred, shocking both characters and cementing the relationship's fate as dead. The confetti remains for the rest of the act, signifying the stain of the Nazi regime and the moment that the everything "breaks". This is the most stunning and heartbreaking moment I've ever seen onstage, and the rest of the production uses similar sensibilities and devices to its advantage.

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explorationofstyleblog · 2 years

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Cats. The Musical. It's good.

Listen. I could sit here and type for hours about why I love Cats the Musical. But I only have 10 minutes to type this so. Here we go.

Cats follows a group of Jellicle Cats who have gathered for the Jellicle Ball in order to decide who gets to pass on to the Heaviside Layer. It's based on a collection of poems by TS Elliot and began as a songwriting exercise turned song cycle turned musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Many people have preconceived notions about Cats. Many people who have never seen it before seem to hate it. But I find Cats to be a genuinely charming and just plain fun musical.

With sets and costumes designed by the amazing John Napier, it should be clear going in that an incredible amount of care and time and dedication went into designing this show. Each cat has their own name, their own unique costume, and even their own way of dancing. The costumes are all different but uniform in how they are designed: a painted bodysuit, a tail wrapped around the waist, furry leg warmers, and a wig of fluff and fur and ears. The set is all blown up big versions of normal sized things. The entire show is simply fun and entertaining. I cannot stress how happy that makes me. Sometimes theatre takes itself a bit too seriously--it's stuffy, it's dramatic, it's too much. But the thing I love so much about Cats is that it's just hilariously absurd and entertaining and fun. No other show compares to the beautiful detail of every single design element of Cats. There was clearly so much care and time that went into the making of this show and I absolutely love it.

#UArts #University of the Arts #theatre #style #exploration of style #Cats #Andrew Lloyd Webber #Cats the musical #not the movie

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cansu-m · 1 month

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 6 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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superkursunaskr · 26 days

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ryssbelle · 1 month

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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

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pien-art · 9 months

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pov you’re on a nice relaxing trip with your bestie traveling the world

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prints available here!

#this is. very different than what i usually make #but its a style i def want to explore so uhh bear with me while i figure it out #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time #my art #fanart #wot fanart #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #lan mandragoran #digital art #illustration #aldieb #mandarb

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lovehina019 · 2 months

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cirkinkadininutopyasi · 7 months

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veaski · 4 months

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i like the funny yellow robot (style exercise with the beeloved) the ratings are purely design based, not on the media they come from <3

#transformers #maccadams #bumblebee #maccadam #tf animated #tf earthspark #tf go!go!#tf idw2 #tf generation one #tf g1 #tf prime #tf rid15 #style exploration

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varggarn · 5 months

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I played Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky for the first time a little while ago and was reminded of how very wholesome the PMD series is. So here are some completely self-indulgent drawings of my rescue team. Shout-out to anyone else that has played the game with this specific combo!