/lit/ - Literature

>>23034700
Don't know what to do bros. I feel so aimless. I used to act in regional theaters and opera companies but during COVID that all shutdown. I was dating a girl then for two years and conformed my life around her but she dumped me last April. I was considering a few MFA acting programs to have pedigree to work at a college and get an easy HS job if need be but I fear theater is so pozzed these days that I don't even know if I want to enroll and take that investment, but it's all I ever knew: performing or being in the theater and working side jobs. But I was just in NYC to visit my sister, and every show these days approaches the work from a modern, leftist socio-political angle. I saw Once Upon a Mattress at City Center as part of their Encores! concert series and they edited the book to put in woke modern feminist jokes. Can you imagine that? Editing a 70 year old musicals books just to add modern political philosophy. You destroy the universal appeal and message of a work when you infect it with modern political thought. So sick of it. Saw the same thing in a Shakespeare production off-broadway. Adlibbing jokes about 'Patriarchy' during a Shakespeare play, can you imagine that shit? Show some respect.

There is a one year MFA at GWU in classical theater I think I would love but I worry it will be too 'woke'. Shakespeare approached his characters from an ontological aspect but Shakespeare theaters these days are so pozzed and modern that they disfigure his works and their intent. Maybe I could be the 'change' I wish to see in theater but places just bully you these days if you don't agree witht them. But there are no other programs that interest me. I don't want to get an English masters degree since I want to study the works I care about, and all I really care about regarding English literature are early American authors (Melville, Washington Irving, Brockden Brown, etc) Shakespeare, Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher for the playwrites, and then the epic poets (Homer, Milton, etc).

I'm fucked bros. I don't want to keep working in restaurants my whole life. The money is good but it's ungratifying. I basically just go to the gym, work, and read. My life feels aimless since the breakup, and now I worry there will be no future. At least with an MFA I could work on my artistry again, then after I could work in a school and try to educate the next generation. I just don't know what other alternative there is. I have no other skills.