I've only managed to catch the first season of "Slings And Arrows", but I utterly love it and nothing short of death or the collapse of civilization will stop me from seeing the rest of it.
Hell? Hell is being a professional theater troupe that does decent work ("as comfortable as an old boot") without ever being challenging or interesting...or alternatively, hell for an actor or a director is peaking too early in your career. This series takes that idea and runs with it, and there's barely a false note or a wasted moment in the episodes I've seen. The whole show is just amazingly organic and complete in tone and atmosphere.
I'm not a "theater person", but my best friend was, my wife was a tech for years and my mother was in the periphery of a noted community playhouse for a decade, and I have to say: this show nails it. It skewers its characters even as it celebrates them, and displays the confounding mix of nobility and hope and banality and frailty and ego that makes up the theater experience.
I can't guarantee that someone who tries this show on for size will like it as much as I do - for instance, my father hated the theater and basically made my mother stop doing it after they married, and he'd have hated this show. But if you have a feel for human drama and comedy...make it a point to see "Slings And Arrows".
Hell? Hell is being a professional theater troupe that does decent work ("as comfortable as an old boot") without ever being challenging or interesting...or alternatively, hell for an actor or a director is peaking too early in your career. This series takes that idea and runs with it, and there's barely a false note or a wasted moment in the episodes I've seen. The whole show is just amazingly organic and complete in tone and atmosphere.
I'm not a "theater person", but my best friend was, my wife was a tech for years and my mother was in the periphery of a noted community playhouse for a decade, and I have to say: this show nails it. It skewers its characters even as it celebrates them, and displays the confounding mix of nobility and hope and banality and frailty and ego that makes up the theater experience.
I can't guarantee that someone who tries this show on for size will like it as much as I do - for instance, my father hated the theater and basically made my mother stop doing it after they married, and he'd have hated this show. But if you have a feel for human drama and comedy...make it a point to see "Slings And Arrows".