Lauren Mooney: Personally, I don’t see that reveal as being an “easy shorthand for horror” – to me, it’s supposed to be the very worst thing, the most awful thing you can imagine, not just tossed off lightly. But then again I didn’t feel particularly keen on my first Philip Ridley play either. But it didn’t leave me with the excitement that others felt. My brain slowed and I was left with a heavy darkness I could not shake off. Instead I left puzzled but without that immediate curiosity to pour back through the story and see how this twist was laid out. Or something. With the circular nature of the play, I wanted to have that moment like when the vacuum cleaner cord zips back into the vacuum….you race through your memories of the play and suddenly all the little facts and details click into a new focus and you want to start the play all over again immediately to see how it adds up. If I had felt the play make a statement about this or take a perspective. It might not have chafed so much had I felt that aspect of the plot added up to more for me. And that for me was the play’s greatest strength.īut then I had a nagging feeling about the play. Did we need a dystopian plot where reproductive violence against women is an “easy” shorthand for horror? Particularly in a piece where the male characters seemed substantially more fleshed out than the female characters. And there was a childlike humanity in the midst of all this darkness–a craving for simple things–a friend, someone to trust, an ally. ![]() ![]() In fact I think that’s why I liked the use of D&D too. And did so in a nice lo-fi surveillance state way without an emphasis on technology that seems a little overdone on stage these days. Ultimately, I loved the design aesthetic and having it take place in a literal sewer with all these characters circling the drain. Having Zeppo as the constant observer and the cast hang out about the fringes of the room almost all of the time kept the gritty, paranoia of the piece present. When there was nary a jolt, I wondered what I was missing. Nicole Serratore: I’m probably going to be the dissenter in this conversation but perhaps because everyone had prepared me for something electric I kept waiting to have my genitals electrocuted by the play. When we walked out, my companion said to me “I’m not quite sure what we just watched,” and that’s what’s so brilliant about it. It’s fantastical yet contains at its festering heart an awful truth. It’s horrific and stomach-churning and properly fucking dark, but also full of humour and compassion. Or, more accurately, it feels as though Pomona has been sculpted from the fag ends of collective culture, made out of all this stuff we just have lying around at the edges of our consciousness. But it’s also to do with how play and production mash-up genres and even art forms, effortlessly splicing in pop cultural references. Part of that is the intertwining of game and reality, truth and fiction, which are tangled together in endlessly mind-itching ways. Many people who do not experience ASMR still enjoy the videos for their calming and sleepy effect.Catherine Love: What really got my pulse racing about Pomona was its refusal to settle down into one identifiable shape. It's like goosebumps, but much more pleasant.ĪSMR videos are meant to intentionally help induce this sensation, also referred to as "tingles", but also provide a relaxing, calming, soothing, therapeutic and even entertaining experience for the viewer. ![]() What is ASMR? It is both a sensation and a medium.ĪSMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and is the current, non-scientific name given to the feeling characterized as a pleasurable tingling sensation felt in the head, scalp, back and other regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli, such as crinkling bags, hand movements, whispering, personal attention or watching someone perform a task. ![]() You can listen to selected works outside of YouTube: You can consider supporting my work on Patreon ► Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers" by R. Now all he wants is to help you relax, get some sleep, and hopefully experience some tingles along the way!īook "H.P. the Professor, Dave, Corvus, Margaret, The EOF, etal.) You have a very long overdue and much needed visit from Cthulhu, who has finally awakened from his slumber with a little help from your friends (ie.
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