I Believe that All Is Well

I am getting ready for my Script Analysis class after reading Miss Julie and I don't know what to think about it. This is not the first time something like this has happened. This particular class has introduced me to a different world of theatrics. The place where I grew up only produced particular types of plays, or to be more specific, particular musicals. Being exposed to new things is a way to produce an emotional response.

The theatrical world is always introducing new stimuli to the patrons. From the Greeks to Shakespeare to Symbolism to Post Postmodernism every step has pushed social boundaries and shocked the public. Many plays, like A Doll's House made many people in polite society frown and made others furious. (The main female character left her husband and children in order to 'find herself'). Nowadays that would not be unheard of, play or not, and is not considered socially unacceptable like it was when first put on stage. Now there are actors who go on naked and symbolically have sex (or literally). Now, that is not necessarily my cup of tea but there you have it.

I learned that it is all right to be confused. I do not need to understand Miss Julie in order to be a good thespian or theatre owner. All is well.

Sarah K

Sorry, but Everyone is Different, and the Same

First off, I want to apologize for not writing in FOREVER. I know that I do not have any followers yet but that is no reason to be rude or forgetful.

NEXT! I want to say something that makes people mad at me: Frozen could have been a million times better than it was and I am shocked that Disney let it out in the state it was in. Also, I believe that Idina Menzel has sold her soul to the devil so that everything she sings in will become popular and do better than expected. (She also needs to learn to move the microphone AWAY from her mouth to not only get better use from it but also to look more professional.)

That was the end of today's rant. (I can't say anything about The Guild today because I promised myself that I wouldn't. I still kinda like it though...)

Now, onto the real business: People. I have spent my ENTIRE life on the outside waiting for someone anyone to welcome me in. Those of us who go mainly unnoticed by the rest of the world tend to see (and hear) things that nobody else wants us to know. You have no idea how many private conversations I was/am privy to because nobody sees me. I understand more about human nature than the average junior psychology major.

This leads to my great big discovery that everyone knows but nobody acknowledges: Everyone may be different but in reality we are all the same.

Before you run for your pitchforks and torches let me explain. There are different types of people, from visual learners to active learners, to stage managers and method actors. A human is generally different from all the other sapiens out there because we can analyze ourselves and move on a path best suited for our personal wants, needs, capabilities and chances for success. We also are more likely than a monkey (or chimp if you are snobbish) to not let failure stand in our way, no matter how awful or disastrous. This is what makes us the same.

Now, I know that I fall under the "Average" category of human beings. I am a lower middle class slightly overweight, full time Caucasian/white female student between the ages of 18 and 44. I own a DVD player and a laptop computer and have never been out of the country, although I seriously hope that is not going to be like that for forever. I have two blogs and I eschew things that are popular (remember my rant about Idena Menzel). I am an average student with average grades and an average blog. Nothing about me yells "THAT IS SARAH K!"

So, if a person is just average how do they become an individual?

I don't know.

I kind of wish I did. What makes me any different from the other 7.3 billion people on Earth? or the 2.7 million Americans that have everything I do?

Am I just another flat character on stage? Someone who has certain lines already filled out and doomed to sing different reprises of the same song over and over again until nobody pays for a ticket to see me and the plug gets pulled and all anyone has to remember me by is some old handbills and ticket stubs washed out by rain and snow?

So I ask myself, and each one of my readers, however few, what makes YOU different, three dimensional, worth knowing. Who are YOU going to be today to distinguish yourself from the other sapiens? What is YOUR next line?

Sarah K

Everything, A Performance

I recently found out that one of my acquaintances moonlights as a stripper in Vegas. Now I personally do not have a problem with this. Why? Well, first off it is a personal choice for her and that has nothing to do with me. I got used to the people around me superimposing their opinions about me onto me and I do not want to be placed in the same category as them. Second of all, it is her performance and I am all for expression through performance.

I am under the impression that every movement, every word and every thought a person makes is all for the Grand Performance. Shakespeare* said, "All the world's a stage, and all their men and women merely players" and I use it as my personal mantra because it is true. Think about the last time you were with a group of people: your family, classmates, neighbors, coworkers, whomever. before you act, react, speak or otherwise do anything you follow a set of rules for that group. For example, you will most likely not talk about your overbearing boss with your kids. Also, these rules also involve the language you use and the motions you utilize.

I know my life is surrounded by the way I act around others and you know too.

Think about it.

Sarah K



*Shakespeare, William. As You Like It.

Disney and the Gay Thing

First: the link to the CNN news article I am getting this information from:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/us/disney-pulls-boy-scouts-funding/index.html
P.S. I always encourage readers to do their own research and to tell me what they think I got wrong.

Now I know a lot of gay people but that is not the point I am going to make today. The point I want to make is that Disney should not have given them the funding to start with.

Okay, I know how that sounds but let me explain myself. I like the Boy Scouts of America. My brother and male cousins are members, my father was a scoutmaster for quite some time, I am a Merit Badge Councilor for the organization and I can tell you one thing: the program has ALWAYS been discriminating. They do not allow atheists in. Girls cannot join until they are fourteen and do not qualify to get the Eagle Scout Award. There is a loooooooooooooong history in the BSA of being prejudice against anyone who does not fit the bill of perfect American Boy Leader.

So, why is Disney just now pulling the funding? This quote comes straight from the article above:

According to Disney's charitable giving guidelines, groups become ineligible to receive Disney funding if they "discriminate in the provision of services unlawfully or in a manner inconsistent with Disney's policies on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, mental or physical ability, or sexual orientation."

One would think that discrimination against atheists would count under that religion thing, right? Apparently not. Still, when one is the only company in the world that could take over Wal-Mart successfully I guess one can do what they very well please, including a large publicity stunt like this. 

I want to wrap this into successful marketing and how it would work in the theatrical world but my leg is falling asleep and I need to do the grocery shopping so...

BYE!

Sarah K