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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 18m

Can’t go to One Battle After Another at the local drive-in because I have shows those nights. This is killing me (figuratively).

Marquis for wooded drive-in theatre showing One Battle After Another and Soinal Tap 2.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1h

Tennesee Williams said, 'I don't want realism, I want magic!' Yes. His plays are like fever dreams. But this is often used to justify pointless whimsy, spectacle for its own sake, etc.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

It’s always awkward to have the “I’m not interested in realism” discussion with coworkers. I tend to avoid it and say mm-hm.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 31m

The lychee flavor of Fanta is god-tier.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

I’m VERY interested in developing a relationship with the audience where they enthusiastically thrown down their disbelief.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

It’s always awkward to have the “I’m not interested in realism” discussion with coworkers. I tend to avoid it and say mm-hm.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

It’s always awkward to have the “I’m not interested in realism” discussion with coworkers. I tend to avoid it and say mm-hm.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 14h

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See No Evil

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

I have seen Jeffrey Dean Morgan sing Love Shack at Karaoke.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 13h

Oh no.*

* it’s the Joe Piscopo episode of TNG

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

Steve Coogan worked on Spitting Image and he’s only a decade older than me?! Jesus Christ.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

Quiz Show tells us that the winners of “21” the early sixties won about 20k per episode, just like “Jeopardy” today.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 2h

The character in performance can be any style you describe; the behavior, voice, rhythms, etc. But the interior processes of getting there are up to only me. :)

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6h

And yet Trump can never be prosecuted because of that Supreme Court ruling. The justices have legalized murder, exactly as was argued in court at the time

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 2h

A Thousand Clowns is one of those like Network, where I almost forget Beatrice Straight amidst the fireworks of everyone else, and then I watch and am transfixed. Martin Balsam is sensational in everything but here he’s singular.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 12h

For the genre (rules include no characters that are sympathetic) Barbarians at the Gate holds up very well. Late career Garner was as good as early or mid, Joanna Cassidy and Jonathan Pryce perfect as ever, Rasche and Riegert. Gelbart hell yeah. F Dalton Thompson pretty much plays his own douche.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 23h

All this stuff came on the heels of three years (~30 shows) in classical rotating rep companies with a ton of improv included (Keegan MK was an instructor at my grad school in Detroit every semester). Already used to what could be conflicting theories being treated as equally valid. Make your own.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 23h

Everything is fair game if it works and an infinite number of choices CAN work for any given moment. Always love/embrace what happens. Lots and lots of lessons from back then are still immediate for me. Every artist is from-the-ground-floor different and theatre is cooperation among infinite styles.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 23h

Worked with so many fun writers I became convinced acting is writing your character (not dialogue lol) in real time. Audiences are always smart and curious, like to be surprised and they sense when you’re not really really into what you’re doing. Just standing onstage should be fun and exhausting.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

David Patrick Kelly is the only thing Only Murders got right this season. Jesus he’s still a gem. My hero.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers is handling stuff well. Proud to have been on faculty this year.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

I got to work pretty closely with Anna Deavere Smith for a few months in my 20s. It was her, a half-dozen LAByrinth members and me, and it reprogrammed and replaced a lot of what I’d been as a young actor.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

When I first moved to New York, I did energetic free stuff with Ridiculous Theatrical alums, played at La MaMa and The Brick, Kraine and Ohio, HERE, The Connelly and The Metropolitan Playhouse. Black-Eyed Susan gave great advice; so did Ellen Stewart and Sam Shepard. I still come at stuff sideways.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

When I first moved to New York, I did energetic free stuff with Ridiculous Theatrical alums, played at La MaMa and The Brick, Kraine and Ohio, HERE, The Connelly and The Metropolitan Playhouse. Black-Eyed Susan gave great advice; so did Ellen Stewart and Sam Shepard. I still come at stuff sideways.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Daria voice cast got paid about $300 per episode no residuals ever.

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