Why are the drama kids so touchy-feely?

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I joined drama club, and during the show, everyone backstage was cuddling. On the floor or on a couch that was a prop. We all sat very close on the couch, and often people lay down on top of others. I got a stranger's head in my lap, and a couple people's legs.

It's also contagious. My brother originally said, "don't touch random people", then ended up sitting in another guy's lap. (He's straight, by the way; people in my school are very homoerotic.) I put an arm around a guy I barely know.

Why this culture? I like it, but it's a bit strange, yes?

Well it would make sense people like that could do well in drama, having a wide emotional range and closeness with people. It is not really anything new in drama, if you look into the history in depth.

Everybody knows that drama people are messed-up in the head.

^ Yes, all of what they said. Plus teenaged hormones.

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Look on the bright side of being in drama.

You won't have any trouble talking to girls once you're done with all of it.

Yeah, I've never gotten used to that touchy-feely stuff. They also do it at AA and NA meetings and it irks me.

Idk but all the girls in my class are touchy-feely weirdos. I don't why they do this but it seems pretty unlogical.

As one of those 'messed-up in the head' theatre craftsman (who is also straight), here is my two cents.

When you are involved with a show, you work with these people, for better or for worse, for at least two months. Depending on how much of an ensemble a theatre group really is, you start seeing them as members of a special family that you really care for. I don't know how long you have been involved with the club, but if this group of people have worked together for a while, then the touchy-feely thing probably stemmed from this sense of family I mentioned.

Don't expect this to be the case from the start of a production though. With every show that I have been a part of, unless some of them knew each other beforehand, that NEVER happens until we are well past the halfway point in the production process.