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Genevieve Bardwell's avatar

A beautifully written piece that elegantly describes how the themes of three different theatre plays come together around racism and consensus building. Then Yassmin leaves us with a question to ask ourselves how each of us experiences collective agreements? I certainly experience this in my marriage and with family and use this collective view as a guide in how to make the right choices.

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied's avatar

These things always feel even harder when it comes to family…!

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JULIA HARVEY's avatar

Thanks for the your thoughts. As an Australian in London I was wondering what I should see and couldn’t abide a musical. Kyoto sounds well worth the visit.

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied's avatar

Hope you enjoy if you do get to see it!

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Janet Robertson she/her's avatar

Lol. I just wrote a long comment that disappeared as I answered a call.

Thanks for your thoughts on these two plays. Avenue Q would have been a wacky start to theatre!

Kyoto sounded really interesting - perhaps more than the first play but I'm not a fan of wordy internal monologues by white women - my own are pretty boring🫠. I'm not attracted to that kind of theatre. Was it a static production? Naturalistic?

Wordy well directed moments of history like the production of Kyoto sound way more interesting and your thoughts around them make me want to read the play.

A good oral history/play to read: Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill. She write with the grad students of the London School of Drama. It's about the end of the Causcescu rule in Romania.

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied's avatar

Love a bit of C Churchill! Will check that out for sure!

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