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Have cell phone. Will travel. - Done

Tom Courtney

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Done	[Jun. 29th, 2009\|09:10 am]
Saturday saw our last performance of Henry V. We got as far as the Crispin's Day speech, and then the rain became too much to continue - the musicians' music started melting, they were worrying for their instruments, and the ground behind the flats was getting dicey. It's too bad, because I think in some senses we were turning in our best performance yet. We had last minute replacements for Boy, Katherine, MacMorris, and Orleans, but they generally did quite well, and the rest of the cast seemed to mesh together even better than they did at the event show. In particular, I though Eletarius had managed to expand the range of feeling, cognition, and motivations for Henry in ways that I thought fit in with the structure of our presentation. The Buttery back yard turns out to be a fairly nice performance space. It can seat 30 comfortably, and the space is enclosed enough that it is easy to be heard. I am told that our show has inspired other people to consider using the space - I would not be surprised if there are I Sebastiani shows there in the future. I know I'd put on a show there again. All in all, I'm glad I decided to go forward with the project; the play came out pretty much the way I saw it in my mind - better for the additions the actors brought to it. I think I got some insights into staging Elizabethan theater, and once it has settled in a bit, I am going to write it up and submit it to TI, I think.
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hugh_mannity
2009-06-29 01:30 pm (UTC)

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I'm sorry I wasn't able to act, but I think I was actually better off doing props.

For the benefit of TI, I was trying to make the props look like period props -- so things that they would have been able to get hold of, like tennis balls, got made to be reasonably authentic. Things that they would have had as obvious props, I tried to make to look like period props -- if that makes sense.

It's sort of an illusion within an illusion, if that makes sense.

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negothick
2009-06-29 02:52 pm (UTC)

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I only wish we'd called the show for 1 p.m.--we'd have gotten through the whole thing in good weather!
But the morning rehearsal was marvelous--people really let loose and had fun with it, and I could see the germ of the commedia version.

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