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>Can someone explain what "theatre kid" means
it means someone who was part of drama club or something when they were in school

> We don't have this stigma about theatre in the UK
all the puritans left england for the US, taking with them their hatred for theatre and tried to ban performing arts in general
shakespear was incredibly popular in the colonies even as the puritans tried to ban theatre, which resulted in shakespear primarily being studied as literature rather than as theatre

these attitudes have survived into the modern day long after the original puritans all died off
theatre is still looked down on even as shakespear has become enshrined in the US literary canon as high culture to an extent that even the british wont go to