I went and saw a play tonight called Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. It's about the Charlie Brown comics, only instead of when they're kids, it's when they're teenagers. And I loved it. The set was adorable (it was very cartoon-y, which I loved), the lighting was GORGEOUS with some really fantastic gobo choices, and I really loved the cloud projections, or maybe they were screens. I'm not quite sure. But either way, I loved that.
But there were things I had problems with. It had nothing to do with the technical side of things, or the acting, or the directing, or anything like that. Actually, I would say that what I disliked about the play actually is a compliment to everyone involved with it. There is a lot of bullying in the play. Specifically bullying towards a gay character. And there is just a lot of intolerance in general, especially towards one of the characters who was over weight. It was really hard for me to watch. Being a person who has experienced a lot of bullying because of my weight in earlier years...I really struggled. Everything just flared up from my high school and younger days. I started to loathe the characters who were doing the bullying, almost like I plastered the faces of my own bullies onto their faces. Which made it a little difficult to want to talk to some of the actors after. Or mostly just one, who I had never seen in anything else. I found I could hardly look at him. I am still really shocked at my reaction. I thought I had gotten past that. That it wasn't a piece of hurt anymore. I guess I was wrong.
Side note: it's kind of ironic that I saw a play about inequality and LGBTQ bullying this month, seems as the HPA's current Horcrux is the bullying Horcrux.
Wow, sounds like the actors really did a great job if they elicited such a strong emotional reaction in you. I've not heard of this play before, but sounds intriguing!
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