[Gatesedge] Calling all thespians--ah, hams, that is!

[Bonnie Fowler]

Unless, you have filled the youth part.My eleven year old Danny Fowler,
claims to be interested.As I am not elegible myself,I would be able to help
him prepare.Sounds like a great idea.

                           Ysmene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Macthomas" <macthomas at ev1.net>
To: <gatesedge at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Gatesedge] Calling all thespians--ah, hams, that is!


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Debbie Spangler" <paperdol at wt.net>
> Subject: [Gatesedge] Calling all thespians--ah, hams, that is!
>
>
> > I would like to put on a short Mummer's Play at Gate's Edge's Pestilence
> > Ball. I've gotten Lady Damask's go-ahead. Mummer's Play--what's that--as
> in
> > mummys running around on stage? No, but it is a zany, vaudeville-like
> short
> > play that was common at least during the Elizabethan times and possibly
> > before. It needs no background, no elaborate costumes, just a few props.
> The
> > lines are short and in verse (easy to remember).
> >
> > I NEED 9 MEN AND 1 YOUTH (ABOUT AGED 10-12). Sorry ladies, women weren't
> > allowed to be in plays then.
>
> Performing arts, did you say?  Zaniness, did you say?  No background, did
> you say?  Easy to, uh ... well, there was a point I was planning to make
> there ... anyway ... Signy, count me in.
>
> I would also challenge others in our fair Canton to join me in this
> endeavor, especially those that have never "acted" in public before.  In
> some ways, all of what we do in the SCA is performing arts - we develop a
> persona and portray it before others - so this is really just a short step
> for all of us.  Entertaining others is a very worthwhile thing, and it's
> extremely rewarding.  How many of us act the fool whenever there's a small
> child about to bring a smile to a young face?  How many do things at
events
> that would be out of their mundane element because "that's what our
persona
> would have done?"  It's understood that the performance is to be
> vaudevillian, so no one's expecting a polished performance.  What is
> expected is that everyone involved - performers and audience alike - has
> fun.
>
> Signy has issued the cattle call.  I say, as men of parts, we of Gate's
Edge
> must answer the call.  Moo.
>
> Leaving the bad cow puns to the others on the list (and you know who you
> are), I remain yours.
> Stephen.
>
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