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Published: 2004-10-21 04:19:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 192; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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Description Note: MHTC = Magick Hallway Theatre Company

There's a bit of a story behind this. On the trip up to the Stratford festival, while waiting to get seated for Guys and Dolls, I was hanging with some of my friends- Alexis, Debbia , Jennifer, and Bryan , and we were generally bored and somehow came upon the topic of our school's theatre director, who is a wonderful woman but a bit daft sometimes. Okay, not a bit daft...daft as a brush, but still a wonderful woman. Anyways, I think they've all auditioned at one point or another, and I have, and only one of us has made it- me, as Doctor Pinch in Comedy of Errors- and we like to complain about her circle of favorites and how we want to be in plays and stuff. Since I actually want to be a director, I was like "If I was the director, I'd do things differently!" so we spent the next 30-45 minutes casting various shows. Then about a week later I got bored and spent Spanish, History, and Algebra writing down our castings of the shows. Then I got bored again and drew our casting (and by casting I mean most of the principal roles) of Macbeth.

Front Row, left to right: Debbie as one of the Weird Sisters, Shara as one of the Weird Sisters, Beth as one of the Weird Sisters (yes, I realize that the Weird Sisters are technically supposed to be withered old hags, but I saw it more fit to make them sexy), and Jennifer as Malcolm...not wanting to be King of Scotland

Back Row, left to right: Jake as Duncan (and he hates that, but oh well; he's not the artist), Alexis as Lady Macbeth herself, Aaron as Macbeth, Bryan as Banquo (it was either have a small role and live [Donalbain] or have a moderate roll, die, and get to be a ghost [Banquo]; he picked the latter), and me as Macduff (because Macduff gets a lot of the cool lines, like "bleed poor country" and "o, Scotland, Scotland!").

And a note on Bryan's sash: everyone else's are black and his is plaid because while I was coloring he said something to the effect of "Why are we Scottish and not wearing plaid?"

And on the question of "Why are we Scottish and not wearing kilts": I hate drawing legs. I didn't feel like drawing legs. Kilts mean drawing legs. And thus, we have some plaid and claymores, but no kilts.

And I'm probably going to make a series out of these- some as comics and some as just group pictures (because, as you can see, I need practice with group shots )- but probably not until I'm done with the play.
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Comments: 7

Rogue-00 [2004-10-23 03:14:18 +0000 UTC]

Alexis... as Lady Macbeth... oh dear lord.

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duanya In reply to Rogue-00 [2004-10-23 04:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Why oh dear lord? And is it a good "oh dear lord" or a bad "oh dear lord"?

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Rogue-00 In reply to duanya [2004-10-23 13:19:58 +0000 UTC]

more of a "oh my goodnesss, what madness is this" oh dear lord.

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duanya In reply to Rogue-00 [2004-10-23 15:02:55 +0000 UTC]

Oh...well...this madness is what comes from a mixture of the sweet air of Canada, boredom, and Graham Abbey.

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Rogue-00 In reply to duanya [2004-10-23 15:52:25 +0000 UTC]

I remember sweet canadian air... it smelled like smog, kinda nasty if you ask me. But thena gain it was toronto...

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duanya In reply to Rogue-00 [2004-10-23 17:28:46 +0000 UTC]

The sweet air of Canada is better in Stratford...then Stratford is like far away from Toronto and all...and it's secluded. The most modernistic thing they have is that shitty McDonalds, which is even better than an American McDonalds even though it's...a y'know, McDonalds.

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Rogue-00 In reply to duanya [2004-10-24 02:33:38 +0000 UTC]

oh yeah... I know.

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