ANNEMIEKE VAN DAM Als Elisabeth Und LUKAS MAYER Als Der Tod

obsessed with the timeloop quality of stage plays...romeo and juliet can not escape verona even in death... theyve been repeating the same tragedy for hundrets of years again and again and again, details like what they look like or wear get altered but the core of the story stays the same. romeo dies and juliet follows. the knife draws blood and juliet wakes again to news of her betrothal to paris. does romeos depression stem from rosalines rejection of him or from the fact that hes done this a thousand times over?

I need people to stop writing shows based on real events because how am I supposed to explain to non-theatre people that three of the best musicals out there are a WWII comedy about deceiving the Nazis, a heart-warming tale of the day after 9/11, and a hip-hop story of the founding fathers??

Ohhhh I love this quote from the Count of Monte Cristo!

toby: mister pirelli we're out of product :c whatever shall we do :c pirelli:

indoor voices, raoul

WOW beautiful. The outfit is everythingggg!

hi minecrft roleplay fans here is my design for the one and only

Mit ihr stirbt die Welt

I can't find my post but anyways re what I said about how jean valjean's relationship with his own body is for the most part never really explicitly touched on but there's huge amounts to be extrapolated from it, I think it's really interesting how physical & related to the body the descriptions we see him give are when he's thinking about confessing & then confessing to marius at the end of the book. obviously there's the more literal one:

where the physical state of his leg proves that he was in the galleys and is sort of a physical manifestation of his status as a convict, but there's also, e.g.:

I just think it's really interesting that his feeling of his own taintedness is so physical that it's externalised into his body like this in his descriptions -- particularly when it comes to touching other people

but like why is there never any reverb on cast recordings anymore why does every cast recording sound like it was recorded in a dentist’s office

I love that the seeds of the count are already in edmond long before the château d'if. edmond wasn't a sweet, innocent, naive boy. he was a hothead who challenged danglars to a duel over a disagreement on their journey, he's catty with carderousse who he knows is a greedy liar and he is angry and mean towards fernand whose feelings for mercédès he immediately recognises. the only thing that saves him is his love and unwavering belief in that love being returned. without the love of his father and mercédès, without the goodwill of morrel, edmond would already be a different person, a meaner person. edmond wasn't fundamentally changed during his time in prison- the foundation of the count was long there. but only once he was truly, undeniably wronged by these people, once he lost the love he had, only with the tools he was given by abbé faria, only then did he build the count on that foundation. but the foundation was already there.

it's always love that saves in tcomc, and a lack of love that destroys. valentine is saved through maximilen's love, albert through his mother's, haydée through the count's and the count through haydée's. it's a lack of love, an absence of loved ones, a failure to love that kills fernand, that drives villefort to madness, that nearly kills danglars, that kills caderousse.