open | seal up the mouth of outrage for a while

[catsudon]

WHO: Any and all involved or stopping by the rehearsals for the community theatre production of Romeo & Juliet.
WHERE: Recollé Community Center, located around the border of Tribunal Terrace and Apprassage.
WHEN: March 19th - April 6th
WHAT: Rehearsals for Romeo & Juliet proceed... mostly according to plan.
WARNINGS: None yet!

Rehearsals run according to a schedule, where not everyone is needed every session. People are invited to attend them all, but the people with the biggest roles need to come most often, and scenes are practiced both in the theatre and in smaller rooms within the community center depending on the space needs that day.

During one session, the overhead sprinkler system activates due to a system malfunction, leading to everyone being rained out of the community theatre. The show must go on! Towels and paper towels are rescued and offered around while rehearsal is then held on the community center basketball courts and playground.

In another session, a giant ship, wave, and a white whale cardboard cutout have been brought out on stage while storage rooms are being cleared out. Ready to get your spontaneous Moby Dick on? There aren't any harpoons, but the practice foam swords might be a good theatrical stand-in.

In yet another rehearsal, three chihuahuas end up running havoc through the theatre, requiring coralling and capturing. They're flighty and good at hiding, but mysteriously are attracted to cheese and anyone speaking cheesey love lines (Romeo and Juliet, looking at you); they also gleefully run off with any script left low enough for them to reach, attempting to tear it to shred.

As stage sets are built and pained, the stagehands helping out may be on hand to help fill in as extras on set, or nab an actor currently not reading lines to help move pieces of the scenery. They also need to test out the balcony they've rigged: surely you won't mind getting up there and leaning over to wave down at your companion in set-construction hell? Too bad the ladder breaks after you've reached the top. Fifteen feet isn't much of a fall! (Don't fall, please.)

Costume fittings and make-up tests are part of later rehearsals, but they're supremely necessary. Helping each other in and out of costumes, helping with the costumes themselves, getting pinned up, getting measured; all of it happens as the co-director's vision is brought to life. Only why does everything seem to be so.. fancy? (Because they're going full game of thrones on the costumes — it's a mish mash of styles!) And why are you in costume and being requested to helping go for the emergency coffee? Go on. No one's going to stare too much! Cosplayers!!!

There may be an impromptu fashion show, there may be ongoing choreography for group scenes as well as the fighting scenes. What happens if Mercutio or Tybalt refuses to die? Sometimes you just want to live, guys. You want to live.

Remember, when it comes to luck, all should be wishing each other to break a leg. Enjoy the food when it's catered, enjoy the arguments over line delivery, enjoy repeating the same stage entrance in countless tiny variations, enjoy the set construction, enjoy the choreography, enjoy the costuming or the makeup; enjoy anything you get up to, or complain loudly. It's all part of the experience!

Just what kind of trouble do you get up to?

Comments

SWORDS

[strongestheart]

[Maya is rarely the nervous sort, all things told, at least when it comes to throwing her all into new an exciting activities. For some reason, this whole play is making her supremely nervous.

So when that offer crosses her, it takes a moment to connect before she nods enthusiastically.]

Yeah, sure! Absolutely!

[If anything, it'd be good to blow off some steam while still being constructive to what she needs to do. At least, that's how she sees it, seeking out another foam sword for herself.]

Uh, do you have any practice at this sort of thing?

[parodeity]

Kinda. [ luke taught him a bit and he Remembered a lot more, so. ] What about you, you got some sword skills hidden away? Or like, unhidden away. Do you have any sword skills fullstop, I guess? You could be a secret or non secret ninja, or I guess in this case more a samurai since ninja don't use swords - wait they use short swords I guess?

[strongestheart]

[Maya waves a hand.] No, no! Never swung a sword in my life! I can probably be taught to fake it well enough for a play in couple weeks time, though.

No secret ninja here I think, I'm not sure what secret thing the "flying pink bunny rabbit" in my memories makes me, but it's probably not that.

[parodeity]

Oh right, you mentioned that on the network when we talked, I think.

[ ... ]

I gotta agree with you: stealth a flying pink bunny rabbit is not.

[strongestheart]

[Hahaaaaaaaa...]

Yeah, I almost don't want to think about what that sort of thing could mean...!

[She hefts up one of the foam swords.] However! Not something I've gotta worry about for the here and now!

[For the time being.]

[parodeity]

Well, in either case - come at me, bro.

[ for a swordfight he means ]

[strongestheart]

Uhhh, hmmmm.

[She looks at the foam sword curiously, slashing it lightly in the air before nodding, as if she understands what to do.

She doesn't, really, and goes for a really sloppy stabbing lunge.]