A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

It's Over!!!

What a relief when it was all over. Madeline threw us a cast-party. We had pizza and beer, pulled out the kitchen table and danced. We had a lot of pent up energy and it was good to expend it in a positive way instead of snapping at each other! Regardless of how hard the week was in some ways it was a good bonding experience and there were definately a lot of "I love you!" and "I'm going to miss you!".

Thisby and Pyramus

Annie is a hot blond... 

The Fairies

Annie, Kelsie, Sarah 

On their wedding day at night...

Demetruis/Heather, Helena/Chantelle, Hermia/Christy, Lysander/Kristy 

Before the Duke and Duchess...

Theasus/Amber, Hippolita/Heather 

Here is the scroll of every man's name who is thought fit throughout Athens to play in our interlude...

Snout/Wall/Sarah, Snug/Lion/Kelsie, Flute/Thisby/Annie, Quince/Prologue/Carly, Bottom/Pyramus/Lauren 

This man is Pyramus, if you would know...

Lauren as Bottom as Pyramus 

Hermia (Christy) Demetruis (Heather) Snout (Sarah) and Oberon (Chera) in the back 

behind the scenes

Annie practicing 

This man hath my consent to marry her...

Demetruis and Egeus (me, in case you couldn't tell) 

This green plot shall be our stage...

Sigh.... this week is over, the play has been performed. It had its moments... it also had some gimmicks, but in general it was a lot of fun.
Heather and I gathering ivy to decorate the church. I was really sad when we had to take it down, the church looked so bare!







Heather: I, Heather, do present forest!

ok, that was kind of an inside joke that Shakespeare fans might get...

Back to the Present

Well.... I think I'm pretty much caught up by now... blogging-wise anyway.
This week we are rehearsing for our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! I am playing Quince and Egeus. A lovable goof who thinks he is directing the next big play; and a tyrannical father. Characters who have little in common. I have never actually played a girl in any sort of drama production I've been in, not that there's been many. I've decided one of my life goals is to be able to play a woman in a play. That's pretty auspicious of me I know.
Last night while we were re-hearsing there was a power outage that effected the whole town. So we were right in the middle of a scene when suddenly we were plunged into pitch darkness. Everybody collected any flashlights (or torches) that we had and we were desperately searching the church for candles and matches so we could continue our practice by candle-light (or we set up our laptops and rocked out to "Dancing in the Moonlight"... I may have done a little of both). Before we could light any candles the power came back on. I was a little upset because I thought it would be fun to perform by candlelight, and very fitting for the play as well.
My schedule for this week is crazy and I have little time for anything besides memorizing lines but I will post some pictures of our production in the next little while.