Conspiracy

Sorry to be hogging the Green Room Gossip board at the moment, but this has been bugging me.

Question -
Why do companies decide to perform Summer-costumed/setting productions in the Winter, and Winter-costumed/setting productions in the summer?

How many plays at the moment are set in a warm setting, with actors in scant clothing I wonder?

And how many actors will consequently suffer the flu and share it around?

I'm sure there must be a few gripes out there at the moment..

Babar's Sister wrote:
>
> Sorry to be hogging the Green Room Gossip board at the
> moment...

Trying to catch up to me, are you?


> How many plays at the moment are set in a warm setting, with
> actors in scant clothing I wonder?

Ours is one. Touring some of the coldest old theatres in central VIC while pretending to be frolicking in a Perth summer is an acting achievement highly overlooked.

> And how many actors will consequently suffer the flu and
> share it around?

Oh Gawd. And by the time we DO get to Perth it'll be mid June...


Chills,
Craig

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The way our weather is going in the West, you'll be able to frolic barefoot in June.

34c on May 1! I ask you!

Thou mammering hedge-born burn-bailey!

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And a propos of that posting, why do most musicals get scheduled for the middle of the year, when the lurgies and bugs that cause singers pertubation and despair are at their most rampant?

Eliot

> And a propos of that posting, why do most musicals get
> scheduled for the middle of the year, when the lurgies and
> bugs that cause singers pertubation and despair are at their
> most rampant?
>
> Eliot

Because the summer months are taken up with plays set in winter. Usually in the open air.

Sunday matinee of Hamlet, anyone? "The air bites shrewdly." No it bloody doesn't, it's 32 degrees! Pause while Horatio, blinded by the sun, falls off the edge of the stage.

8-)


Thou errant rump-fed puttock!

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It's a conspiracy I tell you!

I just can't figure out who's against who and why...