Shit...

Watching the video of the people with metal pipes attached to them seemed so ridiculous. It felt like arbitrary bullshit and I wondered if the actors even knew what the piece was about or if they ever worried that they had wasted their time - having to keep a serious face. This seemed like the kind of show that didn't just explain the setting like normal theatre would have. But just immediately began with people scurrying around haphazardly. One man violently hits his metal "dick" against a metal frame. And then the post that we read describing the whole thing just felt like artsy b.s. that someone pulled out of their ass to try to sound deep or like the piece means so much more than it is. As if I'm to be convinced that paying X amount for a ticket to see a bunch of people flail around in crutches with metal rods attached to them is worth it. I got shit to do! For god's sake, a woman in her underwear was moving around on the stage only with the use of her arms and crutches - her legs remained stiff - while she maid unintelligible sounds with a microphone right in her mouth. What the fuck is this shit? A farce?

We had our laughs at the mess and made our jokes. But we watched the clip again. This time, with the perspective that this whole piece could be a rape scene. And suddenly everything changed. It was no longer funny. It got serious. As soon as you saw the actors, you instantly thought of the metal rods on them in arbitrary places as phallic. It just is what it is. You see someone eat a banana, 9 times out of 10 you're prooooobably giggling at yourself thinking they're goin' down/eating a banana dick. Hell, there was the guy I mentioned who was smacking his metal "dick" against a frame. But when we put on the lens of a rape scene over this, that woman didnt have just a microphone in her mouth anymore. And she wasn't moving around with only her arms and crutches. She was the rape victim trying to crawl away. And the metal dick violently being smacked against a mental frame became a metaphor for the rape itself. Every little thing that seemed so random made sense and had a purpose. It was no longer bullshit to me.