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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.
Just what kind of trouble do you get up to?
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.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!
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.
Just what kind of trouble do you get up to?
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See? You just need to ... calm down a little, okay? I'm not going anywhere. As long as you need me to, alright?
[She hopes if she keeps saying reassuring things, Alicia will at least manage to right herself, mentally. She hopes.]
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[She's getting there, but she has a feeling she'd have already shut down without a familiar face keeping her grounded. What a disaster...]
Sorry, Maya. This... probably isn't the image of me you had a few months ago.
[Melancholy is rapidly joining all her other wild emotions, though at least shock is leaving the list almost as fast, as she takes at least some comfort from the closeness.]
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Well, nothing really could be, could it? Before I met you, I just knew you through a screen, but I didn't know Alicia!
But the Alicia I've known since then is even better than that, so... [She smiles brighter.] I'm not worried about that! And you shouldn't be either. Bad things happen to everyone... I wouldn't judge you for that, just like you didn't judge me when you found me in the dark...
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Oh, Maya, I don't know what I did to deserve you. I...
[She sniffs, trying to get herself under some kind of control again and not having a good time of it.]
Thank you, truly.
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[A joke! At least, the attempt. Seeing Alicia crying hurts but at least she's laughing, so a part of her figures she might as well run with that.]
But... you're welcome. Really, I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't be able to forgive myself otherwise.
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[An honest smile as she starts to settle down; she doesn't know how she wrapped back around from depressed to cheery, but she'll take it.]
I'm happy we're friends, Maya.
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Mm, so am I... seems to be better for both of us if we keep an eye out on each other, huh?
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[If nothing else, Maya is a calming influence, she's begun to notice. Curious.]