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14 June 2006

DumbPlayCo Update: Blood is Shed! [More:] Okay, our show has gone from bad to surreal to dangerous. Last night one of my castmates tore his head up from a botched exit. Why was it botched? Because someone had the bright idea that his scene would be funny if he were wearing a metal garbage can on top of his haid!

So our boy missed his exit off stage, fell, and ripped his head up and left a six-inch dent in the can.

Paramedics were called, and another castmate said the accident was like "popping your fingernail into a ripe orange".

So, one person hospitalized, we do a review of the show this evening, and the weather hasn't cleared at the theater yet either, so the set paint keeps ruining our clothes and costumes. Mud is everywhere.

Rainbaby - I see now why outdoor theater is ridiculous. Never again.
I'm real sorry boy got hurt. At least you are getting good material.

I have to know what the play is, I just have to, it would make it all so much funnier.

Like, if it was Merchant Of Venice with magic tricks and trash can lids, etc.
posted by rainbaby 14 June | 10:45
No, it's Two Gentlemen of Verona! His first play, I think. Which makes it worse because the play itself isn't well-written to begin with!

It drags on and on (oh, did I tell you about the rope gag that takes nearly 10 minutes of stage time while nothing else is happening for the audience?)

We've even managed to put in trombone music at one point.

I mean, there may be a way to make this work, but it ain't happening here, and now good people are getting seriously injured because of it.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 14 June | 11:01
I guess they figured, "hey, we're already in the woods, yo!"
posted by rainbaby 14 June | 11:36
Well, I definitely feel as though I am.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 14 June | 12:11
Any chance of you bringing the touring version to Vegas in mid-September?
posted by essexjan 14 June | 12:20
That poor trash can.
posted by grabbingsand 14 June | 12:26
Oh yeah, the trash can went to the hospital too. This guy used to be a college fullback and paratrooper in the Army. It was fully staved-in on one side.

Oh, have I told you he wants me in a Charlie Chaplin moustache for the show also? So now LT is wandering around Seattle looking like an angst-ridden German burgermeister.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 14 June | 13:44
This deserves an article in The Stranger. I hope you are keeping a daily journal. No prisoners.
posted by warbaby 14 June | 14:18
Warbaby, I just want the high-pitched whine in my head to stop long enough to live through this experience.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 14 June | 15:32
Tell me three things about your life right now || It's all my fault. Let me have it.

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