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debka_notion) wrote2004-02-09 12:01 am
debka_notion) wrote2004-02-09 12:01 am
Between Satisfaction and Frustration
Between frustration and satisfaction comes rehearsal- or rather, it blends the two. Today was full of both- a props and costumes meeting for BORG (we're making slow progress on costumes, and have done almost nothing on props...), 4 hours of BORG rehearsal, and another 4 hours, minus time for dinner, of HaMakor rehearsal. It's been a long day, but fun, in between bouts of serious frustration. I'm exhausted. THe progress report is that the choreography is almost done, we just have to make the ending exact, and fine tune things- and Find a last person. Eep. BORG rehearsal was similar- I ended up reading assorted parts that are other people's: I wasn't supposed to be in any of the scenes they were rehearsing: I was there as moral support and to do prop and costuming stuff. Instead I read Witch 2 (aka: I, a girl, was supposed to be a guy dressed up as a girl. It's in a bit that's a play inside the actual play), and some other actor pretending to be the Duke (a character in the actual play).
The humor today, and behavior in general was rather seriously hormone-influenced. A Lot of jokes that were, err, questionable, at both rehearsals. It was very much a surprise from the BORG crowd, which is usually not likely to crack that sort of joke. But theater tends to loosen people up, almost immediately, and there were a lot of people at this rehearsal. I don't remember examples of that, but at HaMakor, when it was just Samara, Matthew and I working in one place- well, we had one string of comments that went about like this:
Matthew: "Sheep are better than sheaves of wheat: they're friskier" (originally about shifting from dancing sheaves of wheat to dancing Joseph's-borhters, guarding sheep, but...)
Samara: "The ancient Near East: Where men were men and sheep were nervous."
Matthew objected in some way, not getting the idea.
Me: "Stop digging yourself into an even deeper pit."
Matthew: Oh.
REpeated mentions of sheep cracked us up the rest of the rehearsal.
In the same vein, we speculated that if Joseph were gay, it would explain a lot about the stuff with Potifar and his wife... That would explain why Potifara was trying to seduce him, and why Potifar wanted to keep him so badly, if Potifar were also gay and Potifara was just a bored wife. I don't know how that one came up... It would work, I guess: the Bible is certainly not shy about sex and the like. It might make an interesting contemporary midrash in a synagogue/community of hte right sort (aka liberal). Which reminds me that I still need to try to get in contact with Rabbi Judd about that dvar Torah about Moses' wife, or rather from her perspective. Hmm- maybe I could get one of hte folks who can actually Act to read it for me... *schemes more, in an abstract and vague way*
Bedtime.
The humor today, and behavior in general was rather seriously hormone-influenced. A Lot of jokes that were, err, questionable, at both rehearsals. It was very much a surprise from the BORG crowd, which is usually not likely to crack that sort of joke. But theater tends to loosen people up, almost immediately, and there were a lot of people at this rehearsal. I don't remember examples of that, but at HaMakor, when it was just Samara, Matthew and I working in one place- well, we had one string of comments that went about like this:
Matthew: "Sheep are better than sheaves of wheat: they're friskier" (originally about shifting from dancing sheaves of wheat to dancing Joseph's-borhters, guarding sheep, but...)
Samara: "The ancient Near East: Where men were men and sheep were nervous."
Matthew objected in some way, not getting the idea.
Me: "Stop digging yourself into an even deeper pit."
Matthew: Oh.
REpeated mentions of sheep cracked us up the rest of the rehearsal.
In the same vein, we speculated that if Joseph were gay, it would explain a lot about the stuff with Potifar and his wife... That would explain why Potifara was trying to seduce him, and why Potifar wanted to keep him so badly, if Potifar were also gay and Potifara was just a bored wife. I don't know how that one came up... It would work, I guess: the Bible is certainly not shy about sex and the like. It might make an interesting contemporary midrash in a synagogue/community of hte right sort (aka liberal). Which reminds me that I still need to try to get in contact with Rabbi Judd about that dvar Torah about Moses' wife, or rather from her perspective. Hmm- maybe I could get one of hte folks who can actually Act to read it for me... *schemes more, in an abstract and vague way*
Bedtime.
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Could have done without a lot of that. Honestly, it's as though people are deliberately trying to impoverish the English language by giving everything a racy connotation!
And considering the proportion of people in the play who are seriously disturbed by such 'humor', it really should be avoided. Consider: Magrat, Granny, You, other costume/props girl, what's-his-name as Lady Felmet...that's all so far, but that's over a third of the cast who was present.
But none of us could figure out how to stop it without spoiling the mood of fun you need to do Pratchett...
Moo!
But the other costume/props girl, 'Steve' -- she hasn't learned yet how to let it all go over her head. If she is present during such a sequence, she'll be upset. Word to the wise. We should spread the word to the less-wise.
Have a lovely evening.
-- Me
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And, in less than appetizing conversation topics, I gather that depending on when one is castrated, err, sex can still be possible, just not the reproductive part... It depends.
So how did Joseph get his post (clearly very high, viceroy, effectively, no?) without being castrated? We know he had children, after all...