DIRECTOR'S NOTE • Nov. 2023
You can't go home. This play has a particular
care for and interest in its victims. The resident
inciting event is endless. tragedy is much more
concerned with footnotes than it is with gods.
well acquainted with what happens afterward,
storytellers claim they can't diverge from what's
written: resist. rage against what must be.
tell a story about war without talking
about love. survive its aftermath. fail
to find resolution. make this suffering
a home. There's no breaking this chain—
fate, as always, gets its way.
Poetry assembled from the program of an Oresteia production. Nov. 2023.
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some of you people are so obsessed with having an acceptable group to ‘punch up’ at that you would rather pretend a marginalized group are Basically The Oppressors™ than listen to their valid criticisms about the fact that ‘punching up’ very rarely hits the intended target, and the majority of the actual damage of that act is suffered by fellow marginalized people in your own community. there is a significant difference between venting frustrations about privileged groups and just outright attacking anyone who (you assume) experiences that axis of privilege regardless of - and in many cases outright denying - their actual lived experiences. it goes far beyond just ‘venting frustrations’ when what you’re really doing is trying to find a moral justification to bully people you don’t like, and when your own desire for catharsis and moral superiority leads to ignoring the voices of the vulnerable people you hurt. you’re not ‘punching up’ - you just like punching people for the sake of punching.
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Things my friends have picked up from me that I say in vc and have permanently ruined their vocabulary:
I did it on purpy
Oh Shint
Fuckint
[after making a horrific noise unprompted] ok im normal
so true (in response to anything)
so true fr fr (forreal forreal) (in response to previous)
I need to take a tactical gamer piss
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riz had his entire summer taken away from him by having to save the world AGAIN but he didn't even seem to mind because he loves adventure, and loves getting to spend time with his friends so much. riz enjoyed being forced to chase an eldritch creature for like 3 months and missing out on having a regular fun summer because he genuinely does not know how to relax and have fun, because all he knows How to do is work and save the world, yet still he just so enjoyed spending it with his friends because that's how much he loves them.
riz created a plan for how all his friends are gonna get into college, and his mom told him that that's great, but he has to take care of himself, too, but that just flies by his head because, and i cannot say this enough, he loves his friends so much. his mom might not even be able to afford his college but he's making that plan anyway. he even likes every single one of kristen's posts on her religious-based social media when like Nobody else does because his friends are his world. when siobhan said "riz, the goodest boy" this episode i really went. yeah. yeah. [a single solemn tear rolls down my face] Yeah he Is the goodest boy isn't he.
Anyway, completely unrelated thought, don't think about murph saying that riz in junior year starts to lose the idea that his friends in high school are going to stay his friends forever. and also don't think about how one of riz's greatest fears is his friends leaving him behind (specifically for romantic partners later in life that are more important to them than him). I'm sure this won't be relevant or come back at all ❤️
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