
This week I am joined by the multitalented: Reece Connolly! Reece is a writer, performer, theatre-maker and artist. They also starred in the film 'A Werewolf In England'. Today me and Reece explore the link between creativity and femininity and talk about satire in art and film. You can find me on Instagram @locqueslaroux and Reece @reece_connolly_
Masculinity 101: In 1971, the British critic Raymond Durgnat observed that the “rationalist puritanism” of some critics meant that they often disliked female-driven soap operas and the emotional vulnerability they stir up, but didn’t object to what he smartly called the male weepie. Yet surrendering to the weepie, whether male or female, and embracing “emotional immediacy,” he wrote, “might be the beginning of maturity.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/movies/men-in-trouble.html
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