Posted to the Bulletin (Sir Percy forms another league)

[yousir_mesir]

A Call for Artists, Actors, and Amateurs of Both Varieties!

Lud love us, we are without a theatre troupe of any kind. The horror! The inhumanity! It must be remedied, good neighbours, for only le bon Dieu knows we need a bit more amusement in this place. I call for a company to be formed with the expressed purpose of putting on plays and other

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[fbi_forever]

Sir Percy,

Sword fighting. On stage? I'm there. Oh, and I've been practicing. See you there.

Booth

[yousir_mesir]

Booth

Sink me! On stage! Well, perhaps on stage. I should hope on stage at some point. Action, sir, a company needs a man of action, and I would like you to be him.

Sir Percy

[fbi_forever]

Sir Percy

Oh, sorry, I just---I was Romeo in school, so I got excited at your announcement. That'd be---awesome. I'd be honored.

Booth

[yousir_mesir]

Booth

Did I confuse you, sir? It was not my intention! I would like you to join the company, on stage!

Sir Percy

[a_lonely_god]

The Doctor couldn’t really pass up the opportunity to be involved with an acting troupe run by Sir Percy Blakeney. Thus, he arrived in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle around noon with his hands in his coat pockets, grinning like an idiot as he looked around.

[gypsyroselouise]

Fashionably late because her mun's only just gotten her app done, Gypsy showed up a bit after what was presumably noon, and watched a few of the auditions ahead of her with an ironic, discerning eye. She was dressed in a fairly spectacular form-fitting white gown, and stood around refracting light with her sequins and giving every evidence of patience in waiting for her turn ... before inclining her head to one of the few gentlemen around whose clothes and behavior made any kind of sense to her.

"Hello, there. Auditioning?"

[a_lonely_god]

“What?” The Doctor blinked -twice, once for the surprise, and once for the sequins- at her.

“Oh, right, yes,” he added after a moment, as though he’d just remembered the fact. “Well, thought I might. Not much experience in theater, but I’m rather an admirer of Sir Percy’s, and Shakespeare’s a good friend, so I thought, well why not? Little enough else to do here, and I like a little spotlight as well as the next person. You look like a lady who knows something about the stage yourself, though? Actress or singer?”

[gypsyroselouise]

"'Shakespeare's a good friend'?" she asked, sounding faintly amused. "Are you an English professor, sir?"

In answer to his question, she extended her hand and said, "Gypsy Rose Lee." Which she felt covered it.

[john_adams_1776]

John hurried to the auditions, flustered. Catching sight of Percy, he ran up to him, out of breath.

"My dear sir," John panted, "do say I haven't, that is I haven't missed much of your audition, have I? You must forgive me. I completely lost track of the time..."

[yousir_mesir]

As John Adams ran towards him, Percy regarded the man with a good-natured grin and a half bow. "Lud love you for hurrying," he chuckled, and then shook his head to relieve the man of some woe. "Not to worry, not to worry. Some thespians have come and gone, true, but you're not too late, my dear fellow."

"Besides," Percy added, fixing a bit of his cravat, "Tis monstrously easy to lose track of the time here."

[john_adams_1776]

It was especially easy to lose track of time when one was spending time with one's girlfriend, but John wasn't going to say as much. "It is indeed."

He looked disappointed that he'd missed the thespians, though. "May I ask, dear Sir Percy, who has auditioned and what you thought of their performances? Have any impressed you?"

[yousir_mesir]

Percy thought back to those who had auditioned and chuckled quietly to himself. "Ah, few auditions, my friend. Pippi auditioned. She danced and sang. Let me think..." He fiddled with his quizzing glass while he invited John to take a seat beside his previous position.

"There are a few who I have asked to join knowing previous experience. Miss Una, for one, and that fellow Kit who arrived immaculately dressed. He's a true actor, you know! Stage and all, my good fellow! A Mr. Booth, who I have been teaching the art of swordplay, so I expect he'll make a fine thespian...at least in the ways of physical drama. Let me think...ah, yes! A young girl named Rukia! She seems quite promising. A host of others as well, Mr. Adams. I'm mightily impressed." And then, as if 'suddenly remembering', Percy added, "Oh, and my wife too."