Your incessant monologizing fills the castle with ennui

[sovay]

Hey, I've thought of a meme.

Sparked by the fact that I wouldn't actually want to be a Stoppard character—I'd die in a fire or I'd be A.E. Housman—who would you like to be a character in a play by? Why? Whose plays would you absolutely not want to find yourself in? (Nota bene: to be differentiated from the writers whose plays you feel like you're living in already. Given how most of my friendlist seems to be doing, that way lies Oh, yeah? I'll see your O'Neill and raise you Sarah Kane.) No fair just calling Shakespeare.

Otherwise I've stopped sleeping again, which makes the idea of more frequent posts seem even more remote and exhausting. I should still try.

In the meantime: talk to me about theater!

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I'd want to be in Goldman's The Lion in Winter. I love the characters in that play. Anyone except John, please, not that Alais has much interesting to say, but nothing bad happened to her in the historical record.

Also, did you know about http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319754/ ? With Rafe Spall -- Timothy Spall's son! -- as John? "Nobody'd piss on me to put the fire out!" I feel I must see this posthaste.

[sovay]

Anyone except John, please, not that Alais has much interesting to say, but nothing bad happened to her in the historical record.

This is two votes for The Lion in Winter. Maybe we should stage a reading at Readercon this year.

With Rafe Spall -- Timothy Spall's son! -- as John? "Nobody'd piss on me to put the fire out!" I feel I must see this posthaste.

I didn't realize anyone had ever filmed another version!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I just spent forty-five minutes under a truck getting a cat out of an engine block. Is there a play for that?

[sovay]

Is there a play for that?

Rube Goldberg.