Dude it’s so crazy like. When we want attention we can just go online and like post a picture or something. But like. Back in the day if you wanted attention you’d have to fake a seizure and be like “I saw. Mercy. In the wood. Calling on the devil. To make her the most powerful witch in the wood. ”

Slings & Arrows is now available on Youtube! (!!!)

LEGALLY, I mean. 

If you don’t know what ‘Slings & Arrows’ is, you need - NEED - to go and check it out now. If you do know what it is, well. I don’t have to tell you what to do. I am just saying. It’s time for a rewatch. ISN’T IT.

GO AND WATCH IT NOW.

For the people who don’t know: It’s a theater thing. It has good theater and bad theater and fucking marvelous theater. It has amazing actors playing terrible actors and terrible actors playing great actors and it has jealousy and intrigue and drama and tragedy and musical and ghosts and all the Shakespeare you could possibly want. The main character is the guy who played the Mountie in Due South and he is a crazy actor who went (even more) insane after playing Hamlet coincided with a personal betrayal and he also has crazy dark hair and is named Geoffrey Tennant (no connection, this thing started in 2003).

So. And now it’s on Youtube. The whole first season. All six episodes. (It’s a Canadian series. They just don’t do 24 eps per season. It’s not their thing.)

Here’s is a clip. Yes, I know, the picture quality isn’t that great. It’s better in the link to the whole episodes. (Not much better though. This might also be a Canadian thing. To be honest, even the DVDs aren’t that great in the picture quality department. But. Look. You are probably going to watch it on your phone anyway, so it doesn’t really matter, does it.)

who would win: macbeth edition

a prophecy that ensures one man shall inherit scotland, or

some moving trees and a guy whose mom had a c section

you know what? you’re so fucking right.

you know what? you’re so fucking right.

stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires

very short crew member: my best friend back home is 6’6”

crew head: do you... climb them???

OK tier: Performing Julius Caesar in suits and ties

Great tier: Performing it in full Roman armour

God tier: Actually stabbing the actor playing Caesar

admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream

My grandpa's 6'8," I feel like he's going to step on me.

An actor

one of my actors just learned what cinco de mayo is

i saw goody proctor cracking open a cold one with the devil

is macduff a dilf

i have no concrete answer but probably more of a dilf than claudius

When one considers that three different plays could be performed in a single week, the intensity of an actor’s personal study can be fathomed, as well as the strain on his memory. No wonder actors and actresses could be seen walking the streets of Covent Garden muttering and gesticulating to themselves. An anecdote is told of the actor Jack Verbruggen, who went out into the fields beyond London one morning to rehearse his part in a tragedy. Three passing highwaymen found him gesturing violently to himself, rolling his eyes toward heaven and shouting, ‘I charge thee not!’ to some imaginary foe. Taking him for a madman, they grew compassionate and urged him not to harm himself. When the furious actor told them that he was a player learning his part, they changed their minds and robbed him of his money.

a hilarious anecdote about one of the dangers of practicing your lines in late 17th century London.

(recorded in ‘Nell Gwyn: A Biography’ by Charles Beauclerk)

the playbill for the closing night of the original cats was so emo

moody ellipsis and all

Hi! As a high school senior who has a few tech internships lined up this fall, what advice do you have to NOT be like Dishrag?

Dishrag is fine. There’s nothing wrong with Dishrag. He’s really excited to be there and be a part of everything.

Be excited. Love what you’re doing. Don’t let the jaded, grumpy old timers get you down. Don’t let your enthusiasm be tempered. Dishrag hasn’t.

If you don’t know the thing, ask a question. No one expects you to know everything. It is much worse if you pretend to know something and then fuck it up and have to redo it (or your supervisor has to do it for you) than if you just ask the question the first time. 

The real theatrical incubus is a straight male actor who has used handsomeness and charm to get away with basically trying to direct every show he’s acted in.