School Auditorium: MSND rehearsal (4-7 PM FHT)

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

There are snacks and assorted beverages on a table to the side, and the house lights are up.

The stage lighting is still a little beyond Rory, so the simple overhead fluorescents will have to do for the day.

And by the door, there's a sign-in sheet.

Actors? Your stage awaits.

[If you comment before my OCD threads are up, I'll get Callisto to burninate you. OCD is up! Comment away! And here is a helpful link to the full text of the play, and here is the cast list, which will be a bit revised today, yes.]

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SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Philostrate, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena are all in this scene.

Please start with starting with Theseus, Hippolyta and their attendants (who, for the time being, are being handwaved) entering from stage left.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi enters from stage left and waits for Theseus to say something pretty.

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

*Hamlet sees Pippi waving at him and decided to make his way over to where she is.*

I'm hoping you have more of an idea of what's going on than I have. Apparently I've been cast as "Theseus", but since I seem to have lost the second half of February somewhere, I must admit to having no idea what I'm supposed to do, or where I'm supposed to be.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Your character is a Duke... I'm the Queen of the Amazons. We're engaged. We don't really have much to do but you say most of the stuff."

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Really?

*He opens up the script and starts looking at the cast of characters.*

But Theseus was a King, not a Duke, and the Queen of the Amazons kept trying to kill him. Does this script have no historical accuracy?

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yup."

Pippi crosses her arms and smiles at Hamlet.

"She did? Did she ever succeed? Or did she just kick his butt and force him to marry her?"

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

*He shakes his head.*

These authors who just don't take the time to get things right...

*He tries to remember what he learned about Greek mythology at his old school in Wittenberg which was built centuries after the action of Hamlet took place.*

Neither, actually. Theseus steals her girdle, and possibly her sister Antiope, to prove his might and decides to marry Hippolyta. He eventually leaves her for the princess Pheadra. Hippolyta decides to exact revenge by having her Amazon legions attack the weeding, but Thesueus kills them all single-handedly. The Amazons never win in Greek mythology.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Who wrote those stories? Grandfather Fabe used to always say that if Greek women killed themselves for 'love' at the rate they did in the old stories there wouldn't be any Greeks left."

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Some members of the ancient Greek society of Ionia, possibly based on historical events, I suppose. This is one tale that can't be blamed on Homer or Ovid.

*He starts reading through scenes in the play.*

The whole of this is needlessly wordy, overcomplicated, and full of anachromatisms. What kind of author wrote this?

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"The kind that was paid by the word?"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia flips rapidly through her script, looking over her lines for the scene.

Fortunately, most of the ones for the first part she understands. It's not until Helena starts waxing poetic that she really loses track.

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto wouldn't blame Nadia for losing track there. She still hasn't managed to figure out whether Helena is a pyscho-stalker or the world's biggest doormant. Possibly both.

Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.

She leaned over to Nadia. "Is it just me, or do some of these verses suggest Helena's more interested in Hermia than Demetrius?"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia giggled. "That would be an interesting twist. Especially when they fight."

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair bounced onto the stage and stood quietly, trying not to distract his mind from any girlfighting mental images.

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[nadiathesaint]

If Nadia is uncomfortable about acting across from Blair which she totally is, she manages not to show it. Though had she known she could distract him with girl-fight talk, she certainly would have continued it.

What? Distracting people is fun!

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grins at Nadia, and also doesn't show the fact that he's uncomfortable acting as her romantic interest. "So are you ready for this?"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiles back. "As I'll ever be."

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I'm really nervous. I'm freaked out that I'm going forget all my lines or fall over my own feet or get my hair tangled up in something." He pulled on his newly extra springy curls and watched as it bounced towards the ceiling.

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia also watched it bounce. "Wow." She made a mental note not to get too close to Blair during the rehearsal, lest she get tangled up in it.

That would suck.

"I'm sure you'll be fine."

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"It would explain why she only starts to get violent once she thinks Hermia has joined up with Lysander and Demetrius, 'To fashion this false sport, in spite of me'," Callisto snickered.

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned and repeated her current favorite line of the play: "'I am amazed and know not what to say!' I think Hermia really wishes she could have all three, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena."

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

There was really only one response to this. "Dirty."

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[sea-incarnadine.livejournal.com]

Macbeth mostly stood around awkwardly, staring at his script dumbfoundedly.

Sure, he had done a mostly satisfactory job fooling people about his motives in the past, but he was starting to wonder if that made him an actor, or just a very good liar.
Philostrate... Philostrate...

He flipped through the pages of his script and hoped that he would somehow figure out where it was that he was supposed to be... before it was his turn to perform.

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[fh_jackass]

"Okay, I'm here," Logan said. "Where do you want me?"

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Offstage, for the time being. Enter from stage right when you hear your cue," Rory replied distractedly.