i keep having to make threads like these

PiptheFair

oh hey just looked at my post count time to hang myself

Straightzi

Othello is my favorite

I am also fond of The Tempest and the Scottish play

Straightzi

I take a sick pleasure out of Two Gentlemen of Verona as well, given that it is the original teen comedy.

PiptheFair

Straightzi wrote:

Othello is my favorite

I am also fond of The Tempest and the Scottish play

macbeth is really great and has a lot more depth to it than earlier plays

Janson

Hamlet is awesome.

I detest The Tempest.

FAQ

what happened to my plan of reading a bunch of shakespeare over the summer

I did watch Ran again...

Straightzi

PiptheFair wrote:

Straightzi wrote:

Othello is my favorite

I am also fond of The Tempest and the Scottish play

macbeth is really great and has a lot more depth to it than earlier plays

It is very good and it makes me angry every day that in a traditional interpretation there are like no good parts for me.

MrMonroe

oh hello theater thread

throughout high school I was in... two one-acts, five full-length plays, a process piece and a long-form improv show that we brought to the Lanea Festival in... 2002 I think?

I was also the tech director for a year and a half. I've jury-rigged more stage lamps than most people have ever seen in their lives.

for some reason that last part doesn't look as badass on the page as it did in my head

PiptheFair

Straightzi wrote:

PiptheFair wrote:

Straightzi wrote:

Othello is my favorite

I am also fond of The Tempest and the Scottish play

macbeth is really great and has a lot more depth to it than earlier plays

It is very good and it makes me angry every day that in a traditional interpretation there are like no good parts for me.

one of the witches

Straightzi

PiptheFair wrote:

Straightzi wrote:

PiptheFair wrote:

Straightzi wrote:

Othello is my favorite

I am also fond of The Tempest and the Scottish play

macbeth is really great and has a lot more depth to it than earlier plays

It is very good and it makes me angry every day that in a traditional interpretation there are like no good parts for me.

one of the witches

I'm no Andy Dick.

Aneurhythmia

MrMonroe wrote:

I was also the tech director for a year and a half. I've jury-rigged more stage lamps than most people have ever seen in their lives.

for some reason that last part doesn't look as badass on the page as it did in my head

Don't worry; I've done that. I know how it is.

Aneurhythmia

One time, I was holding a huge piece of pressboard in place, because there weren't enough clamps, and this girl was cutting out a large set piece with a saw. As she got near where I was holding the board, I yelled, grabbed my hand, and fell to the floor. Then like three seconds later, I stood up laughing. But it was too late, she had already started to pass out.

skettios

Janson wrote:

@The Dave Fella, seriously! She's always suffered from recurrent UTIs and just recently she had a horrible kidney infection; painkillers were no help and she was in absolute agony. Her doctor's finally diagnosed alcohol as being the root cause.

eeep! That's me!
Now to find out how to prevent kidney infections.. don't want to lose my booooooze

Kwoaru

@PiptheFair where the fuck have you been

PiptheFair

Kwoaru wrote:

@PiptheFair where the fuck have you been

taking a break from rift because I got tired of a lot of thigns

Kwoaru

but the pixels pip

HellaJeff

i love me some theatre, but I am much more a conductor and singer than an actor.

I hate poetry, but I regularly read Shakespeare's Sonnets. That is just inspirational in so many ways

ani_game_bum

Senior year in high school I got into the pit orchestra for the musical; the one thing I was looking forward to my final semester. My mother made me drop out of pit b/c of my D in English (still a passing grade, mind you). I tried to explain that I already committed to this and signed a pledge form to show up for all the practices and everything, but she wouldn't have it. Had to call my pit director on the phone with her standing right there next and had to explain the situation to him; he wasn't happy either. Graduated with a 3.0 GPA

Fastforward three years later, my brother gets to be part the Russian enforcer group in Fiddler on the Roof just because he can pull off the traditional Russian dancing they do on one of the early scenes. He graduated with a 1.5 GPA and is now an alcoholic silly goose that lives in my parents basement.

I have a great appreciation for the theater, especially where I work occasionally broadcasting National Theater Live shows, but I make sure my mother is reminded of the above injustice.

*gets off soap box*

HellaJeff

Ani hook me up with your works' archives. kthx

Metzger Meister

i'm a stage actor! haven't had any big roles yet, mostly student directed/written stuff, but it's very fun and i feel so natural on stage that it's something i for sure want to try and pursue. unfortunately, living in wyoming, our community theater programs are fuckin' awful.

Airking850

These days I satisfy the urge to perform through rock music and vidja game casting and D&D. It is an itch that never really goes away.

Quoth

I just saw a commercial for Puffs that touted their new tissue line. It sounded like they said "Puffs Plus with Dicks"

It was Vicks, not dicks, but I giggled

Legba

I'm going to be working a part time job the next six months or so, helping out on a theatre tour roughly a day a week. It'll be pretty cool, and ensure that I can pay my rent, which is awesome.

Legba

Also I document theatre for a living so, you know, pretty into the whole thing without needing to have any measurable talent myself. It's pretty swish.

satansfingers

i went to a big interactive theater thing recently that was incredibly powerful. it's sort of an adaptation of macbeth done primarily through interpretive dance in a seven-story warehouse that you, as the audience, are left free to wander around and explore. you follow actors when you want and look through the sets when you want. i realize this sounds incredibly pretentious, but it was one of the most affecting pieces of art i have ever experienced.

satansfingers

also i saw cillian murphy in a wonderful one-man show in december

i've been trying to get to more theatre lately, it's just so very expensive

Legba

I love theatre. My favourite thing about living in London was being able to go to the theatre at will. A short stint as a theatre critic was pretty swell too.

I think my favourite show was a one-man show about Robert Maxwell called 'Lies Have Been Told', which was just this really fascinating look into the real (and fictional) life of one of Britains biggest bastards. I watched it about five or six years ago and I still have the program.

Keith

I would like to try acting

Does anyone here need a Chucky for their stage adaptation of Child's Play?

Anjin-San

bad op, lock thread

Spoiler:

RALLY THE PEOPLE ON THAT PROJECT GODDAMN IT

*yanks out long hairs*

satansfingers

no but i may have an opening for a little rascal

Keith

satansfingers wrote:

no but i may have an opening for a little rascal

I've always wanted to play Petey

miscellaneousinsanity

A friend of mine down in Austin does stage adaptations of 80s and 90s action movies with a troupe called the Old Murder House Theatre.

LorctheOrc

I like Titus Andronicus, no, really

Orikaeshigitae

unintentional wrote:

Ori you should make these threads all the time
Everyone likes them and yours (suspiciously!!) don't get locked on page one

ain't hard to make a thread about something and then immediately steer it into a reef

Gumpy

Just gotta conveniently get rid of the dude in the crows nest

Orikaeshigitae

Anjin-San wrote:

bad op, lock thread

Spoiler:

RALLY THE PEOPLE ON THAT PROJECT GODDAMN IT

*yanks out long hairs*

I'm on it today. Should never have agreed to let wow players edit.

Quoth

LorctheOrc wrote:

I like Titus Andronicus, no, really

Delicious

Legba

miscellaneousinsanity wrote:

A friend of mine down in Austin does stage adaptations of 80s and 90s action movies with a troupe called the Old Murder House Theatre.

Spoiler:

These are delightful.

miscellaneousinsanity

I'd really love to see one in person someday. Their facebook page has all of their youtube/vimeo links, but I don't think any of their shows are up in full.

PiptheFair

titus andronicus

is

brutal