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willnotbenow

more wwi!a.u.

Mar 31, 2009 11:31

*Laertes told him to rest, and he wanted to (wanted to obey -- when it comes to winning the love of a father, he doesn't know what to do, except to behave, to obey, to stay out of the way -- of course he was never going to be anybody's equal), but in Laertes's apartment he thought of all the wrong things, thought of a morning in bed teasing and ( Read more... )

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willnotbenow March 31 2009, 19:48:57 UTC

*monologue!* It was a story about two lovers, preparing to face a trial together. Because of various misunderstandings between them, they've never known each other's feelings, and they don't even know that they're lovers. The audience knows. One of them ... has been seeing somebody, but always offstage, because if it were a real person with a real stake in this, the narrative wouldn't be as neat, the audience couldn't be as sympathetic. It can't be too neat, though, or nothing would ever happen -- so the other one decides to take up with someone new, too. To incite jealousy, or, less deviously, to somehow show themselves that they can. But the lovers are destined. They conquer their misunderstandings, and know at last what they mean and have to be to each other, and usually they wouldn't have had the incentive, if it weren't for that someone new. So what can she do? She can't insist on her feelings -- then she becomes a harridan or a villain. The time she's had on-stage is too short for the audience to believe her feelings are that deep. It's assumed they weren't real -- or at least they were misplaced, love for an absent friend, or a father. The best thing she can do is gracefully bow out, realize that hers wasn't the beginning of a grand romance, but an interlude in other people's -- she has to acknowledge the superiority of her rival, say something like 'I wanted you to be happy, but now I see I'm not the one who can make you happy,' and wish them luck. She disappears into the background, and if her heart breaks, nobody has to see. Then there can be a happy ending.

morethanfantasy March 31 2009, 19:58:48 UTC

typist: ooh, meta!

willnotbenow March 31 2009, 20:07:06 UTC

typist: :D of course! hamlet loves his meta.

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:01:09 UTC

*listening quietly, afraid he's lost the thread of the story at times--but then he looks at Hamlet standing there before a run-down lodging house, looking alone and tired and lost, and it's impossible that he should mistake the meaning* Oh, prince-- *closes his hand on Hamlet's shoulder* I'm so sorry.

willnotbenow March 31 2009, 20:09:44 UTC

*a flickering smile that forgets itself halfway through -- that's trying, but trying isn't enough* Let's go see a show -- one that isn't about two lovers. Is there anything in town?

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:11:00 UTC

I don't know ... there might be a tragedy playing somewhere, but I wouldn't like to see a tragedy.

tragedians March 31 2009, 20:12:27 UTC

*OMG ALMOST CUED*

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:14:06 UTC

*SORRY, GUYS*

willnotbenow March 31 2009, 20:18:38 UTC

*OMG LOVES YOU GUYS YOU'RE HIS FAVORITES AND APPARENTLY GAVE HIM A DRESS*

tragedians March 31 2009, 20:20:44 UTC

*<33333333*

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:29:17 UTC

* psst.*

tragedians March 31 2009, 20:33:52 UTC

*saw it ^__~ am still typing a response in the other thread, with the meta.*

willnotbenow March 31 2009, 20:14:24 UTC

Does it have to have a happy ending?

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:21:21 UTC

Not happy, necessarily--but hopeful, at least. Or thoughtful. *pause* There's not much of that, is there. And it's probably in bad taste for anyone to put on Chekhov, or Ibsen.

willnotbenow March 31 2009, 20:23:45 UTC

Is it?

ay_my_lord March 31 2009, 20:24:36 UTC

Norwegians and Russians--the enemies, you know.

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