saw a production of Midsummer Night's Dream in the park today it was great to get out of the house and be in public with a lot of people, and baby got to taste lots of new foods and play in lavender. she was very well behaved for the whole show
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a fourth and genuinely bold option that had not occurred to me is to recontextualize the entire play around punning the unintended slur in the fifth acthttps://twitter.com/doinglifting/status/1424563449925967875?s=19 …
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the real question is: what were they trying to do? was this done in a spirit of fun? was Peter Quince a stand-in for a neurotic showrunner, or an expression of the actual neuroticism of the cast?https://twitter.com/storebrandguy/status/1424564990191673348?s=19 …
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mulling this further i have decided that I would be equally happy with this being a deliberate jab at the company's patrons, or an unintentional self-parody, so in conclusion this actually owns. thanks for your help everyone!
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Sounds like the one time they made it horny enough was on accident when trying to be hall monitors.
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I like that they conspicuously acknowledged the alteration instead of just slipping in a synonym that rhymes. It's a play. They're allowed to get meta and playful. But also I wasn't there and I don't feel strongly about this either way.
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Yeahbut, at the Globe they would *totally* have drawn attention to anything to get a laugh from the cheap seats, so this is historically informed performance.
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yeah thats legit hmmm
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I read the quoted tweet twice, assumed they were making some kind of dirty joke, resumed reading your thread, and only got it then. Raising the salience of this stuff seems like straight trolling at the margins- like telling people "Don't think of a brown bear." 1/2
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I don't expect this to actually *work*, but only because I model people as less Sapir-Whorfy than the people doing it. It's hard for me to imagine the world where this is both worth doing and not counterproductive. 2/2
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