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2024-10-30 11:33 pm
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If We Believe It, They’ll Say… - We Saw Swept Away on Broadway!

When I found out that Swept Away—a musical I loved so much when I saw it at Arena Stage that I was almost physically ill—was opening on Broadway on my birthday (Oct 29), I immediately bought tickets. Never mind that I live in DC, that it was in the middle of the school week, or that I had no real plan for transportation, I was going to see the motherfucking show.

Well, yesterday was my birthday, and last night I saw it! It was everything I’d hoped and more, and I was planning to make this post a review but honestly I’m still too excited to make a coherent one with good points so just trust me that everything was good even if I can’t articulate why.

( Ramble in place of review (CW: The show is about a shipwreck and includes many heavy themes. Also I’m gonna spoil the shit out of it) )

The show is beautiful in every way it can be. The set is stunning, the lighting beautiful, the sound design amazing, and the story heartbreaking and devastatingly loving. If you have any way to see it on Broadway, I couldn’t recommend it enough.

( Stagedooring & pictures! )

I'm so fucking happy, and so lucky, and oh my G-d people see Swept Away if you possibly can!
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2024-10-05 10:10 pm
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Unsex Me Here! - We Saw Taffety Punk’s MacBeth!

Yesterday, right after Rosh Hashanah ended (as in we left the house the exact minute of sunset), me and TW went with our parents to see the Taffety Punk Riot Grrrls' production of MacBeth in DC, and it was excellent!

The show's cast was all-female, which was extremely interesting in combination with how MacBeth handles gender and especially masculinity; aside from the plays that are basically only about gender fuckery (like Twelfth Night or the significantly worse As You like It), I think MacBeth is probably the most intense and interesting Shakespeare gets about sex and gender. From Lady MacBeth's prayer to be unsexed, to her frequent challenging of MacBeth's masculinity in the light of his terror and guilt, to MacDuff saying that before he can take vengeance for his family as a man, he must feel his grief as a man--there's a lot to work with, and the Riot Grrrls do a lot with it!

( Want to read a full review? I think you do! CW for the plot of MacBeth, I don't know what to tell you )

Review by Crow& with help from TW!
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