mcollinknight

Business the First: what is up with the top of my layout? Garg.

Business the Second: had another play rehearsal last night, which was EPIC. EPICALLY AMAZING. Robin was mostly working upstairs with the goddesses on their whole song'n'dance routine, so Ratanadawong, Cooper, Prop and I were holed up in a room to practice our lines. In this room there was a bucket of crayons and a bucket of glitter. Needless to say, we were distracted.
PROP: YAY CRAYONS. *bounces one off the table*
CRAYON: *goes directly down the front of Colline's dress*
PROP: :O :O
COLLINE: I hate being the only girl in the room.
PROP: Waitwait hold still, lemme try that again.

I am so ridiculously impressed with Prospero every single time we rehearse - not the least because he's doing so well on memorising his MAMMOTH NOVEL of lines. He's almost got the whole of act one done, except for that he wriggles and kicks at things when he can't remember, so the whole thing looks like some sort of interpretive dance.
PROP: One night... oh! Oh! *lashes out*
COLLINE: Do you need to go to the washroom?

During our big opening scene we kept giggling and biting our lips as we tried to get the lines right, and at the very last minute of it, when he kneels down to whisper to me - it's a very intense moment - I crossed my eyes at him and we were just LOST, it was amazing. Some lines, though, are harder to memorise:
PROP: "My zenith tells me upon this time my prescience does depend-" CRAP! I mixed them up. "My prescience tells me-"
COLLINE: Look, no-one knows what those words mean anyway. You might as well just make stuff up.

PROP: "I left the government of the state to my brother-" Wait, is that...?
COLLINE: No, it's the other way 'round.
PROP: What? Oh, it's backwards! "The government of the state, I left to my brother..."
...
PROP: Shakespeare's such a dick.

Robin gave Prospero his Shiny Purple Cape of Magic That HeTalks To, and Prop was hopelessly in love with it. Robin also changed one of my scenes and told me she wanted me to put - and I quote - "SEX" in it. In capital letters. LOLOL FOREVER. It's actually quite fun to do, though it was hard to fit the change in attitude into the lines with both Cooper and Prop just standing there staring. AW-KWARD. Finally, I got it, and was rewarded with a "OH! YES! COLLINE, I LOVE YOU" from Robin <3 <3 <3

Along with making my acting "juicier. I want more, in every way!" (ahhhh Robin ilu) I have also been charged with creating an LJ for the play, complete with pictures from last year's performance. *~RANDOM~*  However, not nearly as random as Prop breaking out into 'Thriller' every ten minutes is.