The Scottish Play
Sep. 17th, 2009 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelGwent Young People's Theatre is currently rehearsing the above and it's just been one disaster after another. They are on their second Lady Macbeth, and she has bronchitis, and they scheduled the performance for next week and didn't realised until the last week in August that this is the weekend that over half the original cast goes off to take their university places. Hasty recasting and now everyone has 2 or 3 parts each.
My own little drama queen is 3rd witch and Lady Macbeth's maid in addition to her initial role as Malcolm and seems to be coping pretty well with it. She was very excited that Malcom gets the final winding up speech that ties off all the ends and finishes the play, and interested in the way they intended to do it - with the cast standing around the fallen MacBeth and Malcolms speech played as a voice over.
Today she made the recording, not long after being given a nice hot poptart to eat by a friend and burning her mouth. It took eleven takes apparently and she wondered why the director and sound man kept giggling. Then they rehearsed and played the recording and she tells me that people were on the floor and Macbeth nearly peed himself as Malcolm said, "We shall not thpend a large expenthe of time before we reckon with your theveral loveth, and make uth even with you." She's hoping they'll let her record it again because, as she said, "It'th thuppothed to be dramatic, it'th not thuppothed to thound thilly!"
So anyone fancy theeing the Thcottish Play with giggling Welsh clanthmen? GYPT manage to put on amazing shows even if they doo lurch close to disaster.
My own little drama queen is 3rd witch and Lady Macbeth's maid in addition to her initial role as Malcolm and seems to be coping pretty well with it. She was very excited that Malcom gets the final winding up speech that ties off all the ends and finishes the play, and interested in the way they intended to do it - with the cast standing around the fallen MacBeth and Malcolms speech played as a voice over.
Today she made the recording, not long after being given a nice hot poptart to eat by a friend and burning her mouth. It took eleven takes apparently and she wondered why the director and sound man kept giggling. Then they rehearsed and played the recording and she tells me that people were on the floor and Macbeth nearly peed himself as Malcolm said, "We shall not thpend a large expenthe of time before we reckon with your theveral loveth, and make uth even with you." She's hoping they'll let her record it again because, as she said, "It'th thuppothed to be dramatic, it'th not thuppothed to thound thilly!"
So anyone fancy theeing the Thcottish Play with giggling Welsh clanthmen? GYPT manage to put on amazing shows even if they doo lurch close to disaster.