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What do you think it would take to make theater interesting again? Nowadays it's just political shitflinging. Surely theater must be about more than just echoing upper-middle class urbanite takes to people who already agree to them.

>> No.20830745

>>20830742
>Nowadays it's just political shitflinging.
>Nowadays
Clearly you know nothing of drama. It started as political shitfling, continued as political shitfling, and stayed political shitfling. Political shitfling is the purpose of drama.

>> No.20830762

Pinget deserved a Nobel too. Easier when you’re in Paris.

>> No.20830764

>>20830745
>It started as political shitfling
The festival of dionysus? I don't mean to excise political content from drama to begin with, I only wish that it is integrated in a less crude fashion. Ancient Greek drama usually integrates the values expressed into a larger framework rather than just beating you over the head with it directly.

>> No.20830777

>>20830742
Everything you just said is what it ways was.

>> No.20830785
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>>20830742
Read Wagner's essays The Destiny of Opera and Actors and Singers. In the latter is his most extensive discussion of the nature of drama and how to regenerate it.

>> No.20830790

>it was always like this

Stop gaslighting, faggots

>> No.20830808

>>20830790
t. didn't eat his Greek cereals