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galen  ·  2943 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 2, 2016

    That's what I want to do - tell fun stories. I often feel writers and especially poets are way too Serious about themselves and their Work. I don't like it.

It's not just writers. That's why I'm not studying theatre here-- our department is convinced that we have to do something film can't do, something that is Artistic and Serious and Affecting. You know what's affecting? Real characters that I can care about. Not a crazy woman that kidnaps some people at a party and brings them into her terrifying fantasy house.





kleinbl00  ·  2943 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Read Miller's Crucible or Ionesco's Rhinoceros and tell me you can't have both.

galen  ·  2943 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I definitely think you can. I just don't think our department has figured that out.

kleinbl00  ·  2943 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a shame. If you can't it there, you're likely to miss it the rest of your life. There's nothing worse than a shitty drama department.

galen  ·  2943 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. It's disappointing.

I'm going to try to do some at Freiburg, though.