If you were to ask Male Mode Me if I wanted to leave the house on a Saturday night and
go to, well, ANYTHING, he’d say no.
If you asked Hannah to do the same thing, she’d be fastening her stilettos before you could finish your sentence.
I’m exaggerating a bit but I am amazed at how many times I go to the theatre en femme considering shows and plays aren’t really on *his* radar.
Going to a play en femme is wonderful. It’s a welcoming environment and there’s no such thing as overdressing at a theatre.
This past weekend I went to a performance of ‘Cabaret‘ at the Guthrie Theater with two friends. I’ve heard of this show but beyond it taking place at a nightclub in Berlin I knew little about it. The Guthrie’s website summarizes ‘Cabaret’ as:
Inside Berlin’s sultry Kit Kat Klub, a charismatic Master of Ceremonies invites patrons to partake in a decadent world of musical numbers, kicklines and torrid affairs — a welcome reprieve from the ever-growing Nazi influence just outside its doors. As the political unrest nears a tipping point, the beautiful life the cabaret promises slowly begins to fade, putting love, friendship and loyalties to the test.
The time period has always been fascinating to me. Facism in Germany didn’t just “happen” or begin overnight, there were elements that led up to it. Small things that grew into bigger things. Horrible things were done by people who were once good.
The entire play had the looming threat of facism. Characters brushed off the reality of what was happening, others downplayed it, others embraced it, and few saw the real threat.
It goes without saying that the parallels to today’s political environment were chilling.
Fiction can be based on events that happened and can be a warning for what could happen. Novels such as 1984, A Handmaid’s Tale, and Fahrenheit 451 seem more plausible than ever before.
Love, Hannah
Hannah McKnight 
I have certainly realized that the events and conditions described in the book 1984 were predictions that either by exact manifestations or ones revealed by relative similarities have come true. The large screen that hangs on Winston’s wall forcing his attentive exercise is now strangely larger and rides in the palm of our hands. SC
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You’re looking amazing as ever, Hannah.
Yes, the world outside the USA has noticed a few parallels between the rise of fascism in Europe a century ago and movements within the US today. Stay safe.
Sue x
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I concur. I recently attended a performance of the Guthrie’s Cabaret (although not en femme–that would have been great fun, and I love your theater-going style). I’d had a vague idea of the play as a bit of Broadway fluff, but of course it’s a vivid picture of a society drifting toward the horrors of fascism while focusing on dancing and having fun. As you say, the play is a chilling warning for Americans today.
–Jackie
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There’s an old saying “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” Very apt in a society where we’re actively trying to curtail education and promote campaigns of anti-intellectualism.
That said… OMIGOD! I love that outfit! Damn I need to plan a trip up there and go out with you to… well, anything!
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