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I thought that would get your attention...
Now then, I am in the process of learning my lines for an amateur play and I wondered, how many Dakkaites are actors?
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I remember in grade 6 (I'd recently turned 12), I was in my school play (a humourous adaptation of Cinderella). All I had to do was put on a guard costume, say a few lines and walk off.
Now, I was dead scared of public speaking (and I still am), so I went rigid when I walked on-stage, said all my lines in a trembling monotone and walked off. I broke down in tears afterwards and didn't turn up to school for the next couple of days.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Many years ago, when I was in junior school, we all got drafted into the obligatory Xmas nativity play. So we're all stood there, in dressing gowns and tea towels-- I was a shepherd IIRC -- reciting our lines and waving at our parents.
Joseph and Mary arrive at the Inn and knock on the door... Innkeeper and wife open the door...
"Do you have any room at the Inn ?" Joseph asks. The Innkeeper, bursts into tears and runs and grabs hold of his mum, whose sat in the front row. Fair play to Joseph -- clearly destined for greatness in the acting world -- he doesn't miss a beat and simply asks the Innkeepers wife the same question.
"Yes. Of course we do. Please come in " she announces.
BEST. NATIVITY. PLAY. EVER.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I got roped into a school production of The Wizard of Oz, with me being cast as the Wizard. This was imagined by the teacher in charge of costumes as me basically standing behind and holding a giant circular cardboard sheet covered in green tin foil to simulate a giant face. I was then due to step boldy onto stage and proclaim 'I am the Wizard!'
Come the night, I step up onto stage and get ready to deliver my line. I hear a muffled thump and laughter from the audience. Turns out I had strode into and knocked Dorothy off the stage to much general amusement.
When I was in 3rd grade I was to play the main character Max in a play of 'Where The Wild Things Are' at a school assembly... my name was drawn from a hat, and I must say that I found the prospect of dancing around to the song 'Wild Thing' embarrassing to say the least. Probably a bit closer to idiotic. I don't mind acting and I've done plenty of drama and roleplay. In this case, however, I decided to feign an illness and not turn up at school that day. I was eight years old, you can understand, right?
Ah, consequences. I think my teacher had to do it. He probably really enjoyed it too.
I had lead in Peer Gynt when I was eighteen, which is far more idiotic and embarrassing, but Peer had a few women through the course of that one...
I played some sort of bizarre European psychopath in a student production that made it onto public access television while I was in uni... ugh... it was an improvised spoof/comedy dating show. I didn't get the girl that time, but I did get to crack my own lines...
"How do you get along with your previous girlfriends?" "Vell... I'd haff to dig zem up first... no, no... after ze first time, zey burned ze bodies..."
EDIT: Oh, but I can proudly say that I have never larped! Unless volunteering at the Abbey Medieval Tournament counts...
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I hated school plays, even more so than I hated school in general.
Normaly I ended up as the third tree from the back or random soldier stood at the side picking his nose, however in my final year of juniors I made the fatal mistake of agreeing to be Fat Sams understudy in Bugsy Malone.
The reason I did this was because it was explained to me that all an understudy had to do was learn the lines but never go on stage. Perfect. Or so I though until the origional Fat Sam came down with Measles.
So there I was standing up on the stage under the spot light with a splurge gun in hand, my head totaly blank, empty of lines, so I did the only thing my terrified 11 year old mind could think of. I dowsed the front row with splurge and legged it to the toilets. Needless to say I wasn't asked to reprise my performance.
Fast forward to 18 years and I am now getting married to an English teacher who helps to organise the school plays, I regularly get dragged along to watch what is loosly described as a "performance" and spend the whole nausiating experience making Simon Cowell like coments a bit too loudly and having flashbacks to "the incident".
Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:wow MasterDRD, that video if immense, best laugh in ages, I actually rofl'd...
Yeah Dom Fera is a genius, all of his videos are highly recommended. I think my personal favorite of his comedy sketches is Better Tim, and my favorite of his serious movies is Die Now or Live Forever. Watch them both.
I was in the movie "Gettysburg" as an extra.
I used to do "Living History" for the Natl. Park Service at Harper's Ferry and Antietam Battlefield.
Currently I act a bit at our local Halloween attraction each year: www.jasonswoods.com
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