# Mundane Confessions I must share **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-confessions-i-must-share/327956 "2005-10-26T04:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-confessions-i-must-share/327956/1 "2005-10-26T04:35:42Z")
When I performed in “The Bacchae” last April I had to wear this tunic under my armor, but there weren’t any pants. They gave me a pair of ‘spankies’ which were flesh-colored underpants to wear over my underpants. When I tried them on, I was dismayed to find that my briefs still stuck out (particularly around the ass portion of the garb) and I figured it would be pretty stupid if I was walking around onstage and people caught a glimpse of my BVD’s when I was kneeling or turning. So I crammed my underwear inside the spankies, concealing them. This kind of backfired, since nobody really knew I was wearing flesh-covered underwear, during some scenes where I was walking up steps and turning the tunic thing kind of flipped up from the motion and people claimed to have seen my ass. Yep, that’s right, all the people who went to see the play- my family, my professors, my friends, girlfriend, and _two of my piano students along with their mother_ got a glimpse of what they thought was man-ass. That’s my confession for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-confessions-i-must-share/327956/2 "2005-10-26T04:57:02Z")
A solution might have been to wear ill-fitting, poorly-dyed flesh-colored tights, like in the recent film version of _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, where Kevin Kline as Nick Bottom acted the role of Pyramus. Nobody could mistake the shoddy tights for his actual skin. Of course, that scene was played for laffs… _The Bacchae_ is a play of divine mystery and requires a certain sense of awe. See the book _The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysus_ by Arthur Evans, for a description of an innovative, transgendered San Francisco production of _The Bacchae_, that sought to recapture the ancient mystery of the play through queerness and genderfucking, felt to be true to the nature of the ancient Anatolian rites from which the Dionysian dramatic festivals had arisen in the first place. Kudos to you, **Incubus** , for your thespian daring. _The Bacchae_ is my personal favorite of all Greek plays. Wish I’d been there to see your butt! ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-confessions-i-must-share/327956/3 "2005-10-26T05:04:15Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > A solution might have been to wear ill-fitting, poorly-dyed flesh-colored tights, like in the recent film version of _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, where Kevin Kline as Nick Bottom acted the role of Pyramus. Nobody could mistake the shoddy tights for his actual skin. Of course, that scene was played for laffs… > > _The Bacchae_ is a play of divine mystery and requires a certain sense of awe. See the book _The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysus_ by Arthur Evans, for a description of an innovative, transgendered San Francisco production of _The Bacchae_, that sought to recapture the ancient mystery of the play through queerness and genderfucking, felt to be true to the nature of the ancient Anatolian rites from which the Dionysian dramatic festivals had arisen in the first place. > > Kudos to you, **Incubus** , for your thespian daring. _The Bacchae_ is my personal favorite of all Greek plays. Wish I’d been there to see your butt! Oh, given my luck, there’s probably a picture floating around on the internet somewhere.