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Do you like watching plays? and if so which ones do you fancy?

I have trouble understanding what's going on in plays because of NVLD and APD, but I've performed in 18 of them. I like being in plays much more than I do watching them. There was one play I had a huge role in that I never did understand the plot of.

I don't really enjoy them but I'm not a visual person & have a rare low vision disorder. I didn't know NVLD could affect play watching but I do have that too.

Yeah, it makes it hard for me to discern between characters.

With me I never paid too great attention to them in the past, but now I have discovered I'm in autism spectrum they've taken on extra significance.

The way that people interact with each other.

No, I much prefer movies and series to plays. Better stories, better made, and not that annoying theatrical behavior where they talk looking at the audience or address the audience, both of which I just fins embarrassing. Not my thing.

I guess movies have more polish.

As much as I want to see plays, theater tickets are expensive.

You can watch some on youtube.

What deters me from plays is the expense and the risk of audience participation. I've been to a few school plays and musicals, and I don't like how they often talk in the same exaggerated American accent.

I really want to see this British show called The Play That Went Wrong. It's a weird postmodern thing, the idea being that it's a performance by an amateur theatre troupe that can't do anything right. The guy playing a corpse can't stop laughing, the special effects are crummy and the guy playing a famous detective is so nervous he stutters. The excerpt I saw on the Royal Variety Performance was so funny that I had trouble breathing. If that show came out to where I am I'd go out to see it in a heartbeat, even at full prices.

There's also a Death Note musical running in South Korea. I'd go see that at full price even if it wasn't translated.

I'm an actor-turned-playwright. I adore plays. I've been the music director/composer/live pianist for five different plays in the past two years, and a couple of plays that I've written have been performed. I want to write theatre for a living.

Favourite Shakespeare play is Midsummer Night's Dream, For modern writers I also love Judith Thompson's plays, especially White Biting Dog. I also love No Exit and Waiting for Godot.

I like musicals the most. I've seen Les Miz, Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You, Billy Elliot, Anne of Green Gables, Anne & Gilbert, a musical based on the old show Happy Days, and more.