I can't seem to fall asleep, my darling
Long but fascinating day thinking about disability and access today. The training was officially titled Building Disability Confidence and I think it definitely did that- it can feel a bit overwhelming at times talking about barriers to accessibility and how far behind organisations and people can be but today ended with almost everyone in the room genuinely feeling more confidence and having practical (and achievable) ideas of next steps.
It felt so good to be there.
And then 30 seconds at Embankment station this evening and all my "people are great sometimes" feelings melted away :-P
Thankfully Yank! The Musical was where we were headed and that restored a lot of them. I mean it has to be said that you don't go into a musical about a gay romance during WW2 expecting everything to be happy and fluffy but the show was so well put together. Tap dancing as a metaphor for sex and a gorgeous ballet/pasodoble section later that sort of shattered my heart a bit... and that wasn't even between the main couple.
It was interesting to see a fairly recently written play about queer men & women in WW2 as well though because tragic though the play was there were places media had conditioned me to believe it was going that it actually wasn't. If that sentence makes any sense :-P
They also used that story (can't remember which general it's actually about) where an order was passed to a woman to list all the lesbians in her battalion and she answered "I can but it will have my name at the top" and the order quietly vanished. Which is a brilliant story but also fascinating in so many ways.
Mostly though the show was a bit like some of the best fic come to life (cuddling for warmth! actually a plot point!) and the cast were all wonderful and there were some lovely pop culture references throughout to movie stars and singers and a running Gone with the Wind thread ♥
And if only the theatre wasn't quite so like a sauna I'd be back there again at least once before it finished...
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It felt so good to be there.
And then 30 seconds at Embankment station this evening and all my "people are great sometimes" feelings melted away :-P
Thankfully Yank! The Musical was where we were headed and that restored a lot of them. I mean it has to be said that you don't go into a musical about a gay romance during WW2 expecting everything to be happy and fluffy but the show was so well put together. Tap dancing as a metaphor for sex and a gorgeous ballet/pasodoble section later that sort of shattered my heart a bit... and that wasn't even between the main couple.
It was interesting to see a fairly recently written play about queer men & women in WW2 as well though because tragic though the play was there were places media had conditioned me to believe it was going that it actually wasn't. If that sentence makes any sense :-P
They also used that story (can't remember which general it's actually about) where an order was passed to a woman to list all the lesbians in her battalion and she answered "I can but it will have my name at the top" and the order quietly vanished. Which is a brilliant story but also fascinating in so many ways.
Mostly though the show was a bit like some of the best fic come to life (cuddling for warmth! actually a plot point!) and the cast were all wonderful and there were some lovely pop culture references throughout to movie stars and singers and a running Gone with the Wind thread ♥
And if only the theatre wasn't quite so like a sauna I'd be back there again at least once before it finished...
This entry was originally posted at http://morganmuffle.dreamwidth.org/1401295.html. Please comment there using OpenID.