February 2012
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create...
– Hattie McDaniel
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My final thought is a simple but mighty one - it is the obligation we have been...
– Merrily We Roll Along
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As long as the music’s loud enough, we won’t hear the world falling apart.
– Borgia Ginz
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January 2012
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Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Report [Rape] |... →
mohandasgandhi:
stfurapeculture:
I amended the title up there because it was actually incorrect. One in 5 women in this study reported rape. A far greater number reported sexual assault that did not meet the study’s definition of rape. Actual report is here if anyone wants to check it out. It should also be noted this was a telephone survey that only included people 18 and older. Given the...
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Then came the darker sooner,
came the later lower.
We were no longer a...
– The Dark Sooner | Catherine Wing
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"Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World"...
The morning air is all awash with angels —Richard Wilbur, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” The eyes open to a blue telephone In the bathroom of this five-star hotel. I wonder whom I should call? A plumber, Proctologist, urologist, or priest? Who is blessed among us and most deserves The first call? I choose my father because He’s astounded by bathroom telephones. I dial home. My mother...
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bookmania)
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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that...
– Alice Walker (via bezdan)
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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light...
– Hafiz (via littleroselocket)
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I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is...
– Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)
Also the implication that kids only starve or people are only homeless in Third World countries. Hello, that happens by the thousands in First World countries too, we’re not special.
(via goddessofcheese)
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or...
– Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via therotund)
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Theatre For All Audiences
Today there was some debate on who theatre was for.
It seems like a ridiculous question, but the internet ran with it.
What do you think tumblrverse? Is theatre just for wealthy white folk? Or should it be for everyone?
Here’s a longer blog of what I thought of this tonight, while watching the great Broadway show ‘Stick Fly’
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For Derrida, meaning never arrives; it is always subject to semantic slippage and therefore remains out of grasp.
-Vida Midgelow
December 2011
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For those who are told to speak only when spoken to and then are never spoken...
– Anis Mojgani, Shake The Dust (via colporteur)
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It’s crucial that you become strong. If you are strong, even your sadness...
– Daisaku Ikeda, The Way of Youth
Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our...
– Sugar
Your kiss makes my lips look like a fish. I’m always hungry for more.
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There are so many different kinds of famine in this world. In my country there...
– Mother Theresa (speaking about theatre in America to a dramaturg)
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November 2011
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Leave Bernadette Alone!
Bernadette Peters is incredible. She commits to parts completely. When male actors do this, they are described as being totally invested. When women actors do this, they are described as being too emotional.
I love her in Follies. I loved her in Gypsy.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of...
– Harry S. Truman (via dreamhampton1)