Tabithas Reading Repsonse

April 04, 2018, by

Please Kill Me reading

By Tabitha Pitre

Please Kill me was an interesting read. I wasn’t has familiar with many of the people that were in this reading, but nonetheless I enjoyed it. What was particularly interesting was chapter 9. Lee Childers briefly talks about an underground theatre called, Ridiculous theater and how it became it’s own genre of theater. It followed theatrical traditions, but used drag culture. Later in that chapter Penny Acarde adds:

The theater is full of street stars, like homosexuals, heterosexuals and lesbians.

The terms Street stars and underground theater caught my interest. The theater seemed like a place that connects people who aren’t taken serious. These people being street stars is an interesting way to characterize the type of people participating in underground theater.