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On not being a massive sado-masochistic pervert: Terrorism, tragedy and the modern stage by Stuart Slade

So you're watching a play " Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, Webster, Sarah Kane, whoever. You're witnessing some hideously traumatic event " old guy having his eyes ripped out, kids dismembered by their mum, chap anally raped with a broomstick, foetus on a spike, whatever – And you sit there, totally emotionally devastated, and you suddenly realise that you don't feel any ...

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:19PM on March 7, 2016

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