de bags of de wimmins is be full of receipts

[learnedax]

Well, the dress rehearsal was pretty good, but a bit unsatisfying in a couple of key scenes for me - and overshadowed by alexx_kay being struck upon the head by a sword, and needing stitches. I liked that fight, but we all thought it would be best to drop it for tonight's show, parts of it being so uncontrolled as to let that kind of injury happen.

However, I spent much of the afternoon musing on things that I could tweak, and getting feedback from cat9's fresh eyes, and I for one am fully satisfied with my performance. Beyond that, a few parts that I had been pretty dubious about right up until the night itself came off very well in the moment, and I was newly impressed with the talents of many of our players, whom I had already known to be very good.

The question now, of course, is after one has conquered the kingdom, and won the lady, what does one do afterward? You would think sleeping the sleep of the just was an obvious plan, but in dark humor I've got insomnia now, so you see me posting at 3:30 instead. Certainly I have a lot of residual energy, and it was a great enough role to leave me with a lot to reflect on, but after sleeping so peacefully last night it seems plainly ridiculous that I should now be unable to get me to rest.

I will tell you this, though: I will not mind if next time I act I play a plucky comic relief character the number of whose lines can be counted in the low hundreds.

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[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

The question now, of course, is after one has conquered the kingdom, and won the lady, what does one do afterward?

Robert Heinlein wrote Glory Road in order to give one answer to that question.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

>de bags of de wimmins is be full of receipts

I looked in my wallet this morning and you were right!

[alethea-eastrid.livejournal.com]

the number of whose lines can be counted in the low hundreds.

...and here I was, thinking you'd be a great Hamlet.

**grins, ducks, runs**

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Unless he does it outside the SCA, I think our choice was either Henry or Hamlet. I think Carolingia can support a Shakespeare production every two or three years, and by the time the next window comes round, he's likely to be a bit too old for the role - though one might stretch it.

Also, more or less on the grounds of playing nicely with others, some other Carolingian should probably direct the next big project, and some other actor should at least get a shot at the lead. :)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Well, I've always liked Hamlet, but a lot of my usual compatriots think of him as kind of an indecisive whiner.

Richard and Iago, the other two on the same scale, are both pretty interesting parts... but really, Mercutio or Dogberry would be a pleasing change, it seems to me at the moment.