The cube starts very uniform and rather out of place as it seems just I bit odd to the audience.
But as it gets ripped apart it becomes clear to the audience how it is just a collection if blocks that are used by the characters to play pretend.
This shows Marvin's attempt to control everyone by viewing life as a game and trying to get everyone to play along to his delusional view on life.
After Meldal is engaged to Trina, he tries to draw her out of the fictional world Marvin has created by physically moving Marvin's blocks and fighting with him in 'a tight-knit family reprise'
As trina breaks free from Marvin's childish world, more props are introduced on stage to signal her newfound freedom from him. She gets to move into her new life with Meldal, and u see them decorate their house together (which is incredibly sweet).
The second act starts with a set made from the cubes arranged in a dolls House like formation as if Marvin will continue living in him fauls reality.
But Marvin himself tears down the formation just before 'its about time' to show how he's developed and is awhere that he can't live life as if its a game.
In the second act it is clear that all the characters are living in reality instead of playing Marvin's pretend both due to the important topics Charrlotte is trying to fight for and the increased use of props spread out across the stage.
(I love their little house plant collection)
When Whizzer gets ill, the set completely shifts to be highly realistic with no use of the grey blocks at all. This shows how Marvin can't ignore things anymore and has to face Whizzers health.
in trousers is genuinely so fucking funny because why was marvin being haunted by how he treats women during his lifetime while he has gay sex with whizzer.
I love toxic queer characters I love queer characters who are allowed to do terrible things and be complex and fucked up I love queer characters who perpetuate abuse and trauma I love queer characters who contribute to cycles of abuse I love queer characters who are part of the systems that harm queer people I love queer characters who have internalized ideas that are harmful to or oppose queerness I love queer characters who make themselves a slave to their passion I love queer characters who force themselves into stereotypes and others ideas of being queer I love queer characters who are flawed and messy and problematic
I also love when queer characters have to reckon with their flaws I love when queer characters have to unlearn their own prejudice and hate to truly be liberated I love when queer characters are punished for their bad choices I love when queer characters work to change and make amends I love when queer characters break cycles of abuse I love when queer characters grow and learn I love when queer characters get to be complex and human and get to grow and heal and also cause harm because people and their life experiences aren’t perfect and linear and unproblematic and life is too complicated and all encompassing to make simple and clear and inherently good and moral
I love when queer characters aren’t denied the true multifaceted and all-encompassing and real reality of life
Im gonna ramble abt Falsettos now but ok so we need to talk about that one moment where Marvin asks ‘isn’t this wonderful?’ And revival Whizzer goes to say yes before being cut off. I think we forget that Marvin was sweet. He could be tender and kind so to Whizzer this was ‘wonderful’, he just never realized how fucked up it was bc like ‘yea Marvin let’s me stay with him and I don’t have to work, so it’s okay that he expects me to cook and clean. It’s not like he’s subtly trying to make me his housewife. And sure he fights and puts me down but he’s also good to me.’ And idk where I’m going with this but I just really want to understand these characters better and I want to discusss and alehebskdjens I love them
dear falsettos fandom, when and why did we decide Whizzer was probably a photographer? What line implies that? I understand why we guess that’s Marvin’s job because of a line or two in the show. Idk if I missed something