Why does Veeky Forums rarely discuss plays and playwrights?

Well, we all have our ridiculous little fixed ideas, I guess.

Why?

>Also, plays in general are the wrong kind of pretentious and actors are mostly terrible people

I don't agree with the rest of your post but that part is mostly true. I've worked in theatres for years and sometimes it's like hanging around with kids in school who crave too much attention. Some actors are okay. All directors are pretentious and constantly looking for networking opportunities. I'm not sure how different that is to your typical office worker/manager but then again I've never worked in an office so can't compare.

Although, once some actor dude came up to me and introduced himself as Karl and I said, oh like Karl Roßmann (from Kafka's, Amerika), and then we got into a brief conversation about the book because he'd once done a radio play about it. That remains the most Veeky Forums conversation I've ever had outside of Veeky Forums.

It's more of a visceral reaction than an idea, it's that sort of gut feeling you get around people who have something 'off' about them.

People in the performing arts have that same vibe about them as politicians, like you can never get a sincere moment out of them, which I guess is to be expected by people who insincerely mimic emotions day after day after day. There's just something about them that screams that they are neither sincere nor good. They deceive people for a living. I know acting on a stage is a sort of benevolent deception but that always seeps over into their daily lives. When you hang around actors and observe them you notice that they are pretty much acting all the time. They're so dedicated to faking being a human being that they seem to forget how to be a real one.

The ancients were right to put them in the same category as whores desu.

shiiii-

>plays in general are the wrong kind of pretentious and actors are mostly terrible people
You aren't even wrong, the worst thing is their complete lack of self-awareness.

we have to stop the brainlet menace

>When you hang around actors and observe them you notice that they are pretty much acting all the time. They're so dedicated to faking being a human being that they seem to forget how to be a real one.
This, 100%. One of my closest childhood friend has been a theaterfag for most of his life and loves acting - he's also one of the least sincere people I know for the very reasons you described. He was an awkward kid for a time during puberty, so it's almost as though he made up for it by acting; he's a much more popular, social person now but, having known him forever, I can see through the act.