A Theater-Going Habit

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May 09, 2024
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Actors have laser eyes that can obliterate people sitting in the audience. They channel all of that focus, attention and connection training; send their anger dinging through all of their chakras, fix their gaze on you and zap you into ashes.

Don’t worry. During performances the stage lights are so bright that actors can’t really see the audience very well - this is for your protection when you laugh at the wrong moment.

This search and destroy power is really just to find the designer in the room that is causing them misery and obliterate. So, me. They really only use that power on me.

Cats have 9 lives, designers have 90.

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