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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Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[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.

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[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."

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[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?

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"The kind that was paid by the word?"

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Must have been. He must have tried to make plays as long as possible to make as much from his patron as he could. Like the play I'm from, which is over four hours long. Ah well, I was cast in it so I may as well try to get through this garbage.

*He flips through the script and discovers that Theseus has the first line.*

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

*Hamlet's surprisingly good at Shakespearean dialogue. Funny that.*

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our....

Pippi squints at her scripts.

"Solemnities..." she pronounces very carefully.

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

*Hamlet smirks.*

A fancier term for sexual relations.

Go, Philostrate,

*He looks around.*

Is there supposed to be someone playing this Philostrate here?

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looked around.

"I don't know... My lines are done for a while."

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

I seem to have more lines, but I need a ... Philostrate, an Egeus, and a Hermia for these next few pages.

Re: SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi checks what the footnotes and considers suggesting that they just cut directly to the "solemnities".