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siebensommer's review
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
the thing nobody tells you is that suddenly you are a person whose unguarded heart now moves through the world, embedded inside a small and breakable body. You want to stuff it back inside you, almost every day you want to swallow it whole. But you can't, and day by day it gets bigger, more unwieldy.
Making a play is like this. It is only different in that your heart, which is now moving in the world outside of you, does not reside in the body of a singular creature. It resides inside the bodies of a strange troupe of individuals who have signed up for this ritual. Who, by agreement, have become something precious and unnamable. You will love these people savagely, beyond language, for the moment in time in which all of you are bound to each other. If they love you similarly, it will be with similar caveats.
There is no intimacy like the intimacy of breathing life into something together, mingling breath. There's nothing like sharing creation. For the months in which we are assembled, the only people we feel connected to are the ones who joined us inside this world. There might be a legal contract that says we have all agreed to play pretend for eight or ten weeks, after which this will stop. But we are human and we forget how time works- Our entire lives are possible only because we have taught ourselves this trick of lying about time. If we thought about the truth-that every morning we wake up is a morning bringing us closer to death- we wouldn't get out of bed. So we live in this room together with a headlong intensity that approximates
"forever," because these are the moments that make us want to live at all. And so, somewhere between how much we need each other and how singularly we share a world that no one else shares, we forget that we will not always share this one impenetrable world. And because we forget, we love.
[...]
Tell me you don't understand that, and I won't believe you.
oh my god
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
eeefann125's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Classism
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