Wisconsin Notes:
Julius Ceasar, by American Players Theater, was terrifying. You can see why rome fell apart. You're part of the screaming mob at Ceasar's funeral. And you get to watch, not only the daggers plunging in, but the poet torn limb from limb by the thugs on the street.
I've worked out playing tic-tac-toe on a 3x3 that's defined as you go. It's not actually interesting -- the first to play always wins.
I've a new system I like better than the current one for running Nod in. It uses, of course, Fudge dice -- the tabletop version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. So it should port to standing up fairly well. I'll write it up when I get back.
The Matchmaker is a better play than Hello Dolly is a musical. I especially like that it's the older people engaged in the romance, and that in this version, Dolly isn't responsible for everything.
Arms and the Man was also great. It's Shaw's critique of Byron...I really should read more Shaw. Or, rather, see more, but reading may suffice. A critical commentary as light as airy as a merague, but still with serious content.
And measure for measure is, as always, a really really weird shakespeare play. Setting it in a cyberpunk-influenced brechtian grunge dreamworld actually works. The garish color and sybolism works well with the retroactive continuity. It makes me think of narrative rpgs...
::crosses fingers:: looking forward to hearing from NEMC in the week after I get back. I hope my physical doesn't last more than 5 hours. How long do those things normally take, anyway?
Time's up...things to see, postcards to write. Fare you well.
I've worked out playing tic-tac-toe on a 3x3 that's defined as you go. It's not actually interesting -- the first to play always wins.
I've a new system I like better than the current one for running Nod in. It uses, of course, Fudge dice -- the tabletop version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. So it should port to standing up fairly well. I'll write it up when I get back.
The Matchmaker is a better play than Hello Dolly is a musical. I especially like that it's the older people engaged in the romance, and that in this version, Dolly isn't responsible for everything.
Arms and the Man was also great. It's Shaw's critique of Byron...I really should read more Shaw. Or, rather, see more, but reading may suffice. A critical commentary as light as airy as a merague, but still with serious content.
And measure for measure is, as always, a really really weird shakespeare play. Setting it in a cyberpunk-influenced brechtian grunge dreamworld actually works. The garish color and sybolism works well with the retroactive continuity. It makes me think of narrative rpgs...
::crosses fingers:: looking forward to hearing from NEMC in the week after I get back. I hope my physical doesn't last more than 5 hours. How long do those things normally take, anyway?
Time's up...things to see, postcards to write. Fare you well.