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‘One man came out to his wife in the bar after seeing the show’
IT’S FUN
Most crucially, BRAT offers a transportive form of musical and visual escapism and fun that encourages the audience to shake it off and get involved. It isn’t too serious, which, given everything going on out there, might be exactly what's most needed.from How to Build Brand Energy by Grace Gordon
Keely Adler added
It’s true that walking through central London in 2024 can feel like navigating a bleak, postmodern satire of the thrills of urban spontaneity: ballpit bars and escape rooms for contrived office socials; expensive, ticketed mega-events; and security guards cosplaying as cops, moving civilians on from heavily surveilled POPS, or privately-owned publi
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a deeply unfashionable man is invited into a privileged world and in so doing creates the coolest club on the planet.
from Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
But that’s only the first shock. The second is that we enjoy the view.
from Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
Brian and I took great pleasure in the fact that we seemed to have created the most eclectic community of fans in Boston: art college students, vegan punks, drag queens, metalheads, academics, people who listened to National Public Radio. That meant the world to us. We didn’t want to tap a particular crowd—we didn’t want to be a hip indie band or a
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