Bards - feed back needed

[kyleena of the rom]

Greetings Willow from Kyleena of the Rom,
   When I joined the SCA, the atmosphere of a feast was FELT upon entering 
the hall. The decor helped, but it was the role playing that made it seem 
real.  When the role playing got easier, people started to recreate the 
prejudices and darkness of the times they were portraying....This is where 
the Camelot-inspired "Dream" is suppose to be superimposed over the 
"realistic" characters we are creating.
   Idealistic persona play helps us to bring to light the best of the human 
race everywhere. It is positive, and often awe inspiring. But it is not 
always taught to new members when they join. I guess that is the job of the 
"Old Blood" members. They are the ones who realize and feel the absense of 
the "dream" nowadays.

   I was surprised to discover that last year when I finally donned my 
"accent" people treated me differently. People who had known me for many 
years seemed to step back and became almost suspicious. I had to literally 
slip in and out of character to put them at ease and get them use to it. But 
people who didn't know me really enjoyed the interplay. It opened a whole 
world of period conversation. Instead of mundane gossip, period subjects 
became more prevailant. It is easier to accomplish what we are trying to do 
here if everyone is involved, but even Queen Ann's Guide stated that the SCA 
  was big enough to allow everyone to do as little or much as they wanted to 
do towards it....
therefore,perhaps the persona police should step back and re evaluate what 
they are complaining about.  Is it the persona play itself? ...or the lack 
of dreamweaving involved....maybe they don't know the difference. (Strangely 
enough,nobody has complained about my persona play to my face.Probably 
because I carry no political clout,or because I am a merchant--these are 
Gypsy accomplishments too,by the way.)
   But every time that I have walked away from the SCA I have missed what I 
have found there...good creative people working towards perpetuating the 
best of what we could have been, and still should be.
   Thus is my opinion.....see you at KyleenaMart at Gothic.

                                  L.Kyleena of the Rom,
                                  --a Gypsy in Camelot



>From: jonwillowpel at juno.com
>Reply-To: bards at ansteorra.org
>To: bards at ansteorra.org, clemming at staffmentor.net, elyssa99 at swbell.net,     
>    magnusm at ncsu.edu, elfsea_excellencies at ansteorra.org,        
>BSilveraxe at aol.com
>Subject: Re: Bards - feed back needed
>Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:50:08 -0500
>
>I have been trying to express Jonathan's and mine opinion on role
>playing. I am not sure this hits the mark.  Please look this over and
>give feedback.
>
>Recently there has been a lot of talk impliing that  roleplaying is not
>needed. I personally believe that everyone has a right to display their
>interest in the SCA in their own way but I would like to comment that a
>little bit of role playing is needed. Many people talk about the "good
>things" of the SCA "the dream". They talk about nobility, honor, courtesy
>and graciousness. They talked about how they are not always found in the
>"mundane" world. And they talk about our losing these things in our
>kingdoms. The ideals of the SCA come alive when we play the SCA game. Our
>titles and the courtesies we do are  perfect examples. They have no
>meaning in the regular world they only have meaning in the medieval
>construct we have created to experience the middle ages. When we become
>too real we become mundane and the values of the real world become
>paramount. If we want the ideals of the SCA to be important to the people
>in the SCA we need to do some role playing to make sure our make believe
>world seems real.
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