Extremely excited for @FEnsemble's virtual performance of Act I of A Bright Room Called Day: an incredible work about the rise of the Nazis through the eyes of ordinary resisters
Afterwards, there will be a panel with @IwriteOK, @shane_burley1, and yours truly
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There are so many good lines in this play, but here's one of my favorites: "There is something calling, Paulinka If you still retain a shred of decency you can hear it... It is calling us to action, calling us To stand against the calamity, to spare nothing, not our blood,
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"nor our happiness, nor our lives in the struggle to stop the dreadful day that's burning now in oil fames on the horizon "What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us
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"This age wanted heroes It got us instead: Carefully constructed, but immobile Subtle, but unfit to take up the burden of the times It happens A whole generation of washouts
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"History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient The best of us, lacking The most decent, not decent enough The kindest, too cruel The most loving, too full of hate The wisest, too stupid The fittest, unfit To take up the burden of the times"
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Surely, anyone who's been paying attention has heard these exact lines deep in their very soul. I certainly have The whole play is very much like that I hope you'll join us tomorrow. It's gonna be very, very good
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