sweetsweetsorrow: amorselforamonarch: fathomed-into-constellations: I saw this on my news feed the other day and it really irritated me so I’m super sorry but soapbox time (I’d put a ‘read more,’ but apparently that’s not a thing for picture posts) 1. In ancient Greek times, as most theatre people know, acting was a part of the olympics. It was considered a sport due to the amount of exertion involved, physically and emotionally. The actors marched in with everyone else. This year in London, 36 Shakespeare plays are being done in a variety of language to pay homage to this. 2. If you don’t think that theatre is athletic, you’re doing something wrong. Especially musical theatre (though I think the same amount of exertion should be put into straight theatre [[the person who posted this is concentrating in musical theatre]]). If you come off of a stage or out of rehearsal and you aren’t aching from the amount of work you just did, please check yourself. Work harder - there is obviously something more you can be doing. EXHIBIT A - Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch after Frankenstein. That was literally the most exhausting thing I’ve ever watched. I had excused them from curtain call in my mind because I’d decided that as soon as they had stepped off stage for the last time, they would be sleeping. 3. How could you agree to this and not feel bad about yourself? Is this a ‘like’ because you think that you’re doing a piss poor job at something you love? Fix it! Or is that you’re oblivious to the fact that what you’re doing is hard? I was so irritated during warm ups for Secret Garden because so many people didn’t want to stretch or thought it wasn’t worth their time because ‘there was no reason to stretch for this show.’ UH. I’M SORRY. DOES SINGING NOT REQUIRE MUSCLES? HAVE PEOPLE BEEN LYING TO ME THIS WHOLE TIME?? Surprise you’re jaw muscles wrap all the way to the back of your head. They are connected to your occipital notch, which is connected your spine, which is connected to the muscles in your back, need I go on? If your blood isn’t flowing and you’re holding tension, you aren’t allowing yourself to be fully open and vulnerable to reaction and living truthfully under imaginary circumstances, and THEREFORE you are not doing your job. Please get out. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. THIS. T H I S . I find it really insulting when people talk about how lucky I am to have an “easy” job, especially at art school. “It must be so nice andrelaxingto just memorize your lines and get on stage!” Excuse me? Is it easy for you to just smear some paint on a canvas? Is it easy for you to just sit down and animate that entire film? Ask me about my profession. I have a lot of feelings about it. I actually really like telling people about theatre, I only get angry when people belittle or undervalue the work/medium. A+ post. Theatre takes a lot of time and energy and stamina and endurance and anxiety and heart and dedication and love. You have to love it, and you have to work your tail off in order to do it well.  9 months ago with 18 notes
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