Musings Riff Lorton - Tumblr Posts
on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.
oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera
“the ending is always the same”
war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology
fathers
billie eilish “blue” | the front bottoms “father” | tiktok comment | desireé dallagiacomo | phoebe bridgers “motion sickness” | venienes “my father” | @mad-girlslove-song | sharon olds “i wanted to be there when my father died” | bruce springsteen “my father’s house”
I do think hands down the best Shakespearean death goes to mercutio like. It's just so Rich. This isn't some dime a dozen lamenting- Mercutio is a cocksure young man who thought he was never gonna die and the realization that he is in fact dying hits him hard, but he can't stop making jokes? Like the jokes are so loaded they're his gut reaction + defensive mechanism but he's also so scared and angry! And up until this point he was all in for the feuding but you just hear in his last words how he realized that he truly just threw his whole life away for absolutely nothing. Like... Oh the layers