The Boards - Tuesday, 8/04 - REHEARSAL, DAMN YOU.

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

For those brave enough to enter the theatre today, they would find a very different director waiting for them within the confines of The Boards theatre. In fact, one could say that the very polar opposite, all that was made to defy Geoffrey Tennant had taken up shop in the dank little box. There was no maple syrup on the stage, no sewage, but there was definitely something wrong with the stage.

Specifically, the man that was standing on it.

"Hello everyone. I am Darren Nichols..." he started, looking around at what he had to work with and not looking particular pleased with it, "deal with THAT. Geoffrey, dear mad soul that he is, has decided to take a little vacation in his institution of choice and thus am I here to guide you poor, lost little lambs in this production of The Scottish Play in his absence."

He walked over and sat down on one of the chairs he'd set up earlier.

"I want it understood that in this theatre, in this place, I am... as a God. I am the director and I will brook no deviance from my vision. I can only think that we have a lot of work ahead of us, as Geoffrey no doubt left quite a lot of the production undone, and not much time to do it in so if you want to lollygag around with your friends, you can do it elsewhere. If you are not on the stage, you should be considering the stage. If you are not considering the stage, you had better be dead."

He leaned back in his chair.

"Well? What do I look like, a traffic light? GO."

[ocd up! and may God have mercy on my soul.]

Comments

YOU HAD BETTER BE HERE

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

...like you've just spent the last few weeks at a Schwartzfeldt puppet colony.

Re: YOU HAD BETTER BE HERE

[veryverypopular.livejournal.com]

Glinda Upland

Off Stage

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

...keep it mum or make it look like you're talking acting or he might nix the muffins, man.

Re: Off Stage

[lovemykilt]

Priestly was eying the new director a little suspiciously, as though trying to figure out if the man was worthy of getting a sandwich or not.

Re: Off Stage

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was staring at this new guy and feeling like she might cry. At least she was used to Geoffrey and after the last weekend she needed that.

Shaking her head, she hoped she could work with this guy and not burst into tears or use a knock-back spell on him.

Re: Off Stage

[glacial_queen]

Karla was...doing her best not to glare. Which mostly meant that she was glaring at her food instead. She had to deal with one of these self-important little trolls in class on Thursday! Wasn't one enough?

She felt better after deciding to smack him with a phantom hand if he got too out of control.

Re: Off Stage

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

It was probably a good thing that Gabrielle was eating muffins like her life depended on it, otherwise she would be talking and there would almost assuredly be tears, huh?

Didn't mean this guy wasn't getting the skeptical eye. A god? Really?

She'd been kidnapped and narrowly escaped being married off to Morpheus, she'd met Hades, and Ares was a pain in her (rather nicely-shaped, if you asked her) rear. Ha! She knew gods. They --

Didn't look all that different from him, actually. Except for the clothes. Maybe.

Hmm.

Re: Off Stage

[magdaofslovenia.livejournal.com]

Sophie was Not Best Pleased. It was probably wrong that she was Very Annoyed that Geoffrey didn't just leave the directing to her for two weeks, it was only rehearsals, but so what, he didn't even tell her in person? And she'd been looking forward to seeing him alive thank you, and now he inflicted this pretentious egomaniac on them all?

Well.

They'd see about that.

Re: Off Stage

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

Prince Edward was eyeing the new director. He spoke a lot of strange words in a manner that pricked Edward's ire.

Consider the stage. What a silly idea.

Pfft.

Re: Off Stage

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan... wasn't sure what to think of this guy. The regular director was odd enough.

Re: Off Stage

[endsthegame]

Ender was here mostly in an effort to make it look like everything was normal. It wasn't; he still felt unsettled, and the bandage on his right hand was a reminder of the two days he spent curled up around Valentine, but there was nothing he was as good at as presenting his usual face to the world.

He even took an apple.

Re: Off Stage

[veryverypopular.livejournal.com]

Glinda was not pleased. Glinda was, in fact, quite peeved. "You don't do this to people!" she grumbled to herself. Geoffrey was going to get words from her when he returned!

Re: Off Stage

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Feeling silly (he was a Muppet afterall), Robin picked up a Muffin and held it up like it was the holy grail or something. "Behold this here that I have found. Tis baked not fried, I'll be bound. Oh Muffin dear you true delight, I hope neither of us are stale tonight."

Re: Off Stage

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Wow. You're a dick," Jack muttered, eating a muffin. The way he was treating everyone else? Horrible.

Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

Spark (http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/) | No Fear (http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/) | Text (http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/macbeth/) | Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth) | Meta (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/3998789.html#cutid1)

[...Darren will most likely interrupt even if you DO work with someone else and he has Ideas about how things should go in this play. I apologize in advance ^_^;;]

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was going over her lines for her character.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[bitten_notshy]

Jack took the stage for his part in Scene III.

"Why do we hold our tongues,
That most may claim this argument for ours?"

He said the line in a projected mutter, with a suggestion of anger behind it, as he'd worked on with Eric.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle didn't actually have any lines in these acts, but she did her best to stand around and look mysterious and slightly creepy for her scene in act 3. She didn't do mysterious and creepy very well.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[lovemykilt]

Priestly was perfectly content to get up on stage and work through his scenes the way they'd worked out in previous rehearsals. Berto was getting quite complex, really, for a guy who sometimes seemed to mostly just be there to act as a foil to a murderer.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[magdaofslovenia.livejournal.com]

Sophie started over-acting immediately. Really. No reason not to. She'd do it the way she liked if there was no Geoffrey there to stop her.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3

[veryverypopular.livejournal.com]

As Geoffrey had discussed previously with, Glinda was hanging around on the edges of the set, "observing" the actions of the characters.

Re: Rehearsal - Acts 2 and 3 - Enter the police

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

And in response to a call to the station, Dale Cooper arrived with four additional troopers as backup.

"All right!" Dale called out. "Everyone stay right where they are until we get this sorted out. Who called this in?"

Stage Manager

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

...oh Zack. Oh Zack, I'm so sorry.

Re: Stage Manager

[puppy_fair]

A new director? Really?

Zack, who looked something like he'd been recently hit by the business end of a bus, just kind of stood there and stared. Confused. Possibly a little terrified.

He wasn't considering the stage so much as he was considering quick escape routes.

Darren

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

Good luck.

Re: Darren

[likeabeachball.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me, Mister Director sir?" Vince said, trying to open with a happy line.

OOC

[suit-of-sables.livejournal.com]

Hi! I told you this might happen ^_^;;;

Anyway, if you don't want to deal with Darren, just sign in and ignore him. If you do, feel free to poke him all you like; drive him crazy even, he deserves it.

Questions, comments, concerns, desires to punt me like a football... put em here!

Re: OOC

[vanillajello]

I would just like to take a moment to emit a high-pitched, incoherent squeal. Because Darren! :D

Oh Kate, why are you not involved in this theater business? *pokes character*