this is a really interesting thing for a writer to add. usually as an actor your intentions or internal monologue is completely up to you, but this writer gives moments that are thought or implied that the audience doesn't get to know about but the actor does. I'm assuming they had a really clear vision of how they wanted those moments to be and they didn't want to give their actors as much freedom in those moments.

This line makes me think about so many things. I'm interested to learn about these "masters" of the dogs as they obviosly cant be good people if the dogs wont even sleep with the thought of their return. This means a lot because usually even dogs thats are abused by their owners have a love and sense of loyalty for them. thats just part of a dogs nature, to love their owner, so if these digs are so scared of their masters i cant imagine how the people feel about the masters.

The author is making some really interesting decisions in this play. I honestly cant tell in so many moments if they are trying to make these characters look bad because they agree wit stereotypes or if this is them pointing out how insane the stereotyping can be and then pairing it with a beautiful traditional dance to show how beautiful the culture really is. But the why are these characters so unlikeable??

This is just some really harsh language to use right at the beginning of the play and quite the opinion. I'm sure this feeling of feeling disconnected from the culture around you and the culture in your home having parents from a different place can be a common struggle for a lot of first gen americans but this is a really harsh way of putting all of that. This following all the slapping is setting a really strange tone for this play.

this character list is already interesting as we aren't giving anyone names but rather identifying people only by their race and a number assigned to them. This is making me feel as though the play will be political and more interested in getting across a message than talking about the relationships between characters.

Seymour is such a little kiss ass in all areas of his life but you cant help but love him for it. I just feel like anything that treats him poorly becomes the center of all his energy he just wants anyone approval at this point. Even this plant doesnt want to do it for him but he begs and pleads and then he gets his worst nightmare out of it. thanks seymour

this person is experiences such hard gender dysphoria. I keep wondering if they are talking about someone else or if they are talking to their inner self or the gender identity they don't align with inside themself. I know that this suicide is going to go down and its so awful i wish they could find a way to feel comfortable in their body

This part is confusing me a little bit. I'm not sure if this is their way of being like im rsvping to my own suicide or if they are inviting the audience to rsvp to it? hoping this will be cleared up because im really interested in what this is getting at

I'm really interested in this poetic form of dialogue. it feels to me like they are speaking out right to the aidience but i am so interested in how this is typically staged. are they just sitting in one spot talking to the audience as if they are a friend or is this just being spoken out into the open for no one and everyone to hear? This isn't usually the way we talk about these sorts of things with another person. this all seems internal but obviously is being spoken out loud but are we meant to feel like we are hearing their thoughts?

This is already really speaking to such a raw part of myself. When i experience something really hurtful or traumatic I often have this feeling of never wanting to speak again. Like the words wont change what happened or maybe I'm not even capable of forming words anymore. That feeling always fades for me, but I didnt know it was a common feeling.

This line, as well as any others, made me think about the 30,000 disappeared people in argentina. The people who were killed during this dirty war had a sealed fate. Once the terror started there way no way of escaping it. and sadly even now their loved ones "can talk as much as {they} like" and tell people about what happened but the fate of their loved ones is still sealed and may never be fully explained.

There have been a few instances now of someone saying what they are physically doing while they do it as if the audience cannot see them. Not really sure what that's about but it makes me feel like they are clowning. Clowns always have this sort of narration of themselves happening while they are doing things and these characters are so weird and over the tip they are giving me clown vibes.

I remember this moment in the original antigone so clearly. This moment always really stood out to me and really clearly represents who antigone is as a person. She is always going to do what she thinks is best, always going to stand up for what she believes is right.I'm seeing all the connections to the original in this play but i find it really hard to read.

honestly this play has been a lot of people talking about how unfair things are and how something needs tp be done but they haven't actually tried to do anything about it. all they do is say that they are waiting for god but he aint come yet! I just want someone to act!

What are these people supposed to do? they are afraid of their government and even if they did look to them for help they are the ones causing all of these inflation and other issues. These people can turn to god but there are very few cases of god coming down and changing things around for people. How will their government expect them to survive if absolutely nothing is accessible to them?

I wonder why these people need to hear these stories now. He says each story comes at its own time, but why do these people need these stories right now? These people want to hear a happy ending, but a happy ending hits better when there have been lot of hardship to make you deserve the happy ending.

Didn't he just say that this wasn't a meal he should be eating? he keeps contradicting himself and maybe this is because he is drunk or maybe this is just brecht doing his thing.

I cant even imagine how lines like this are performed. Him just stating the most bland and random information that matters only to him.

It's interesting that he says that soldiers are the worst people in the world. I wonder if we will learn some strange history he has with the soldiers that makes him hate them so much.

I wonder how long these waiting periods are. I could see this being a really funny moment if they waited like no time or if they waited waaay too long to move forward.

I feel like they left a lot at the scene to identify who had done it. They have to get caught.

I'm kind of confused whether it is known information that she in one eighth black or if there is just this secret disliking for her because of this reason. like does Zoe know this about her self or do the people around her know and treat her differently because of it?

He's really telling it as it is here. White people have the privilege to choose to turn a cheek away from the experience of their ancestors, slave owners, while black people are constantly forced into depicting the harsh reality of what their ancestors had to endure or play into the stereotypes made about their race by the white people who don't want to face the truth of their past. This has me really intrigued to see what this man will do with this play.

little does she know that he knows exactly what its like to be her, only he isnt as brave as she is. he keeps that part of himself tucked away behind a shelf while she gets to live her life openly. I bet he secretly resents her for this.

I love this choice of them all signing the same words and all talking about someone else. This is such a sad love triangle.

um....red flag. I mean i know where this is going but that is his student!!! a minor that you teach!!!! As someone becoming a teacher this feels so wrong. When i see the kids that i teach out in public i feel weird and i would absolutely not want to spend all that much time with a kid i teach because i know its inappropriate.

I cant imagine what its like being so comfortable talking about death. He mentions that someone they know lost their father and then immediately disregards it.

this is where the earlier lines about how she was exactly like her father and nothing like him at all starts making sense. They hold the same secret but they carry it very differently.

This girl is not afraid of anything! I am 22 and wouldn't want to even look at a dead mouse much less keep it for myself. She is comfortable with death growing up in a morgue and fearless.

This gives me a new understanding of this man. I figured he would be pretty ashamed of his child, and if not ashamed just not interested really. But he defends the child and says that god would not love him more or less if he had been married to the mother. THis is probably a very unpopular opinion.

oh so he is the father of this child from wedlock and hes a little crazy.

so this to me seems like its more than just paranoia that all these people are feeling. "isnt it written" makes me feel like there may be some sort of prophesy or curse that people believe is coming true.

i never expect older plays to have such straight up references to sex or sexuality. its funny that because of the style of language i often assume that these people were more sophisticated and polite, but they are human the same way we are. she goes on to say that her kid is a child of a whore so im assuming she had him out of wedlock which makes sense as to why people would be so openly assuming she has a dirty mind.

I love this choice of having two dreams that are both practically the same desire displayed in two different ways. They are both longing for something they don't have, and though the reward is so close they cant seem to fully grasp it. One of them sees this sort of longing to be something they have to go up for, something they will have to work hard to accomplish, while the other has to find their way down. Going down is usually easier than going up, but can be just as scary because no one likes looking down at where they could fall to. Then she goes on to say "here I am swapping dreams with you" like she is saying that she would be willing to trade their troubles, though really they are struggling with the same sort of dilemma.