Thank you. This topic almost destroyed Othello for me tonight. In the first act I was sitting and watching the actors sweating and thinking about this post. And then Desdemona went to kiss him.. and the poor guy was all covered in the black make-up and sweating.. Okay, no worries. It actually didn't do anything bad for my experience since I had already seen it and this was just something that came to my mind while watching the actors do their job (and how after starting to shout at each other - both leading guys arrived to the inability to hold their saliva where it should be :) )
Okay, I think I got what you meant by all that. For me as you can guess - it's the other way around. I love that danger that comes with going to theater. And yeah sometimes in theater the fighting (especially on smaller stages) seems even closer to you and makes one feel much more uncomfortable and sometimes even more dangerous if they go from verbal fighting to physical. So that part I can understand very well. And it is completely logical that some people chose to not see things that makes them feel not good, since in the real life we get enough of the bad.
Ah, then I suppose I will hope that it was just a situation like with my "older people" play. Because otherwise all this gets too sad if the younger ones really don't care about theater anymore.
As for your last part - exactly. It depends on whose side you are. Now that I am thinking I am not so sure which is harder. To get your act together and spit in the face of your older colleague/friend even if the current role says that you have to. Or just to brace yourself and get "hit" with the spit.
I think that part where you can't wipe your sweat is more more annoying that uncomfortable. (And most of the times it seems really nice when some fellow actor takes pity and do that for him - wipe the brow or whatever. Even if it is said that he/she has to do that, it still looks somehow very intimate and trustful.
And maybe all those sweat related thing to me seem more comfortable than to you - because since I have danced before - sweaty guys just doesn't seem so scary anymore :) especially on stage where sometimes you have to stand with them cheeks pressed together after 6 dances without breaks and everyone is so wet that you really can get water out of the shirts in the end.
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Date: 2011-03-18 09:34 pm (UTC)Okay, I think I got what you meant by all that. For me as you can guess - it's the other way around. I love that danger that comes with going to theater. And yeah sometimes in theater the fighting (especially on smaller stages) seems even closer to you and makes one feel much more uncomfortable and sometimes even more dangerous if they go from verbal fighting to physical. So that part I can understand very well.
And it is completely logical that some people chose to not see things that makes them feel not good, since in the real life we get enough of the bad.
Ah, then I suppose I will hope that it was just a situation like with my "older people" play. Because otherwise all this gets too sad if the younger ones really don't care about theater anymore.
As for your last part - exactly. It depends on whose side you are. Now that I am thinking I am not so sure which is harder. To get your act together and spit in the face of your older colleague/friend even if the current role says that you have to. Or just to brace yourself and get "hit" with the spit.
I think that part where you can't wipe your sweat is more more annoying that uncomfortable. (And most of the times it seems really nice when some fellow actor takes pity and do that for him - wipe the brow or whatever. Even if it is said that he/she has to do that, it still looks somehow very intimate and trustful.
And maybe all those sweat related thing to me seem more comfortable than to you - because since I have danced before - sweaty guys just doesn't seem so scary anymore :) especially on stage where sometimes you have to stand with them cheeks pressed together after 6 dances without breaks and everyone is so wet that you really can get water out of the shirts in the end.