You know how there are certain ways in which each of us is That Bitch, and some of those things come up all the time, like how I can’t go for two minutes without talking about cheese fries? And then with others of those things, you are definitely still That Bitch and it’s not like you’re in the closet about it, but time is going by and it hasn’t happened to come up, and then all of a sudden it’s Oscar Wilde’s birthday and you are on Twitter vomiting up every fact you ever learned about him because you never…
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Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (the play)
Published 27 Apr 2011
by
Gin Jenny
When I’m watching really good theater — or, well, less pretentiously, when I’m watching really engaging theater — I stop breathing. I’m not sure whether I forget to breathe, or make a subconscious decision not to breathe because breathing makes me feel like I’m punching holes in the fourth wall, but anyway I start feeling lightheaded and that’s when I remember to start breathing again. Or if there’s a joke, because then I have to breathe in order to laugh. Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is very funny, and in the first scene I was laughing so much my stomach hurt, but…
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