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Cho Seung-Hui, the murderer at Virginia Tech was a playwright. He was involved in a 300-level playwriting class (much like I was last quarter and unfortunately, I am not in right now) and was noted as being extremely quiet and solitary. According to the professor, he only smiled once in the course of the class.
The plays the authorities found were described as "violent" and "macabre." Here is where I am offended. I write "violent" and "macabre" plays. The first play I wrote for my 100-level playwriting class last year was about rape of an older woman. The first play I wrote for my 300-level playwriting class last quarter was a story of two men who watch blind rabbits have sex and touch themselves. And now that artform is taboo. Insane plays are now associated with mass murder. Thanks, ass.
I recommend going to The Smoking Gun and reading one of Cho's plays. That's macabre for you, and there is nothing wrong with the macabre at all. Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Stephen King, these are kings of their fields, none of whom have murdered anyone. Fuckin' Shakespeare wrote a play in which a hurt general feeds a woman her children in a pie.
*Edit*
I take some of it back, having just read his play. It is seriously fucked. Well, it's more just bad. If it were well written, it actually might be good. But no, it's written poorly, with illogical dialogue and random details about nothing. And a big-ass monologue out of nowhere.
The plays the authorities found were described as "violent" and "macabre." Here is where I am offended. I write "violent" and "macabre" plays. The first play I wrote for my 100-level playwriting class last year was about rape of an older woman. The first play I wrote for my 300-level playwriting class last quarter was a story of two men who watch blind rabbits have sex and touch themselves. And now that artform is taboo. Insane plays are now associated with mass murder. Thanks, ass.
I recommend going to The Smoking Gun and reading one of Cho's plays. That's macabre for you, and there is nothing wrong with the macabre at all. Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Stephen King, these are kings of their fields, none of whom have murdered anyone. Fuckin' Shakespeare wrote a play in which a hurt general feeds a woman her children in a pie.
*Edit*
I take some of it back, having just read his play. It is seriously fucked. Well, it's more just bad. If it were well written, it actually might be good. But no, it's written poorly, with illogical dialogue and random details about nothing. And a big-ass monologue out of nowhere.