Four shows down, Three more to go
Sep. 16th, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
recalcitranttoyWow. What FUN! It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and I'm having several of them, including playing a citizen and soldier in Coriolanus. Most of this amusement comes from the professionals I am thrilled to be working with, who come up with such wonderful quotes as:
"You got Jesus in my Shakespeare" -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
badmagic
"It's a combination Tragedy and Comedy....a Traumedy" - I forgot who said that but it was funny.
Last night's performance was quite....unique I must say. We arrived at the Sellers Theater, a theater that the Rude Mechanicals had PAID FOR and contracted for, at our cast call time of 6:30 pm. There we found many posters for some kind of "Worship World" (a nightmare theme park of biblical proportions?) having a service in the theater, complete with sound equipment, portable lights, artificial plants, and a TV style evangelical preacher. Given that our audience would begin to arrive at 7:30 (some earlier) we were quite concerned about WTF. The preacher's staff told us they were staying until 8. Of course, this would make things impossible for us to set up and go on for 8. Rather than run in circles, scream and shout, and rather than use the stage weapons to launch an assault on the usurpers, we left it to our happy Producer to elicit a compromise, and our Christian bretheren departed at 7:30, giving us barely enough time to get ready and go on stage. I might postulate that some of the preacher's staff could have been persuaded by our thigh holsters and replica weapons as we did a bit of fight practice behind the theater.
The next performances, (Sept. 27, 28 and 29) we are assured, will be free of religion, as we "own" the Warehouse Theater, in DC for the week. This is really a good show, even if you remove my bias. Hope to see you there.
"You got Jesus in my Shakespeare" -
badmagic"It's a combination Tragedy and Comedy....a Traumedy" - I forgot who said that but it was funny.
Last night's performance was quite....unique I must say. We arrived at the Sellers Theater, a theater that the Rude Mechanicals had PAID FOR and contracted for, at our cast call time of 6:30 pm. There we found many posters for some kind of "Worship World" (a nightmare theme park of biblical proportions?) having a service in the theater, complete with sound equipment, portable lights, artificial plants, and a TV style evangelical preacher. Given that our audience would begin to arrive at 7:30 (some earlier) we were quite concerned about WTF. The preacher's staff told us they were staying until 8. Of course, this would make things impossible for us to set up and go on for 8. Rather than run in circles, scream and shout, and rather than use the stage weapons to launch an assault on the usurpers, we left it to our happy Producer to elicit a compromise, and our Christian bretheren departed at 7:30, giving us barely enough time to get ready and go on stage. I might postulate that some of the preacher's staff could have been persuaded by our thigh holsters and replica weapons as we did a bit of fight practice behind the theater.
The next performances, (Sept. 27, 28 and 29) we are assured, will be free of religion, as we "own" the Warehouse Theater, in DC for the week. This is really a good show, even if you remove my bias. Hope to see you there.
