Florentina Holzinger’s bloody Sancta was criticised by Austrian bishops and is now a sellout in Germany

Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

  • @espentanEnglish
    47•13 hours ago

    A friend of mine has a condition that can easily cause him to pass out from seeing blood, or indeed picturing blood in his mind. I remember us listening to a guy talking about a surgery he had recently gone through, one that involved fixing an artery, et voila, my friend suddenly passed out.

    My only point being that some people can be very sensitive, and my buddy would’ve no doubt spent a performance like this drifting in and out of consciousness.

    • @TheEighthDoctorEnglish
      20•11 hours ago

      That’s terrible but also very useful to get out of uncomfortable situations

    • @saltescEnglish
      11•12 hours ago

      I have friends like this and with my lifestyle and history of emergency response, I can’t fathom it. Apart from trained hygiene precautions, my brain just never reacts to blood apart from it being an indicator of the next actions to take to keep as much of it inside as possible. I’ve had a shower off a firetruck to get blood off—clothes ruined, still washing blood out of my hair once I got home—but training kept those two alive in time for paramedics to arrive. That’s all my brain thought about. They found out and my buddy and I got a call from the hospital to meet them ♥️

      But then I have another friend that gets queasy seeing a scratch and has passed out from a needle…

      Some of us just have very different survival instincts. Fight or flight seem to both work very well so long as you’re one of the other. But they certainly can’t understand each other.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•7 hours ago

        I had a friend in high school who got squeamish at the sight of blood, or at least that’s what we all thought. She went on to become a surgeon. Turns out, it’s the idea of people being in pain that got to her. Operating on someone who’s out cold was absolutely fine even if they’re gushing blood all over the place, because they can’t feel it.

        • @saltescEnglish
          2•5 hours ago

          I get the same impact, but different response. When I see people in trouble, I have to help. I even started surf life rescue at 12 after saving a few people over time while surfing. It hasn’t stopped and I did more and more, wanting to he a combat medic. The adrenaline that surges seeing trouble is uncontrollable. I do anything short of pure stupidity to save a life and realised it’s a rare trait to have it that extreme, so wanted to ensure it was being put to use.

          I hate seeing trauma and my reaction is to fix it at whatever cost. So, much respect to your surgeon friend, I totally get her.