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Theater Date with Mom?!?

Theater Date with Mom?!?

Can I get a Mom-O-Meter

Mar 20, 2023
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On the content advisory table, can we get another row for Misery with Mom as My Seat-Mate. Experiences of shows differs wildly depending on who you are sitting with. Maybe the Misery-with-Mom-O-Meter is directly correlated to the “Sexuality” score. This one is from the A.R.T.’s website for The Wife of Willesden.

I will ask for more details about how they assign the dots than is available on the website. If no dots are filled in, that means that type of content is not present in the show: “If five dots are filled in, that type of content plays a very prominent role in the show. If three dots are filled in, there’s a fair amount of that type of content.” Though, I would say that The Wife of Willesden is about sexuality. I do understand that, being theater, you have to save a dot for naked butts.

I have seen way more theater than most people, but I don’t go to the theater every week (I will change that this year). This theater has a pretty big education department, as far as theater’s go…

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