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Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

unsimulated

seems like an unnecessarily extra word. you could just say 'included live piercing, sexual intercourse and blah blah..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

why were we wasting medical resources on Germans?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

yinglet theatre B)>

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

ofc its germany /lh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bitchin'...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buehne/theaterberichte/mecklenburg_vorpommern/Sancta-Oper-in-Schwerin-Spiel-mit-katholischen-Symbolen,sancta102.html

look at this if you wanna know what the opera looks like. The fascinating thing to me is that they apparently put on several shows in Schwerin (predominantly protestsnt town in northern Germany) without much fuss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The lady in the bell is where I lost it. Art ("art"?) is fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

LOL! They even have penguins (nuns) on stage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

and copious amounts of fake and real blood

Where did they use the real blood? I thought theaters avoid it because it's really hard to clean and it coagulates after being exposed to air for a while. (though fake blood is also really expensive from what I've heard)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I imagine it's probably something to do with the live piercing, which I assume to be hook pulls? Needle play really icks some people out, but I don't know if it would be visible from an opera stage

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Is opera not about the maximal? I think such things absolutely require content warnings, but also that sounds like the sort of show I’d attend (and know people who’d perform in)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

🤔

I heard a short interview with the opera houses intendant (if I recall correctly) and he was pretty ~~unphased~~ unfazed by this story. He said that it was not uncommon that a few of the 1400 guests of the opera house get nauseous during a show especially on hot days when air gets stale...

Sounded like he wasn't convinced the nausea during the Santa performance was because of the play itself.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*unfazed

"fazed" means "disconcerted or perturbed", just FYI, and I will take my downvotes now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, never knew.

Here's another one some people have never realized. Literally is not the same word as literately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How about littorally?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do I see or even find out about crazy shows like this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Look into regional burns.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, check with your local alternative community. You probably don’t have anything local, but where the body mod types, performance artists, and bdsm folks interact winds up with shit like thie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Actually yes, probably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a Genitorturers concert!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or a Crash Worship concert.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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