#school plays

The Mechanicals were protesting miners. There were three Pucks and they were distinguishable by their spiked blue and purple wigs. Every time Helena stepped on stage they played Kiss by Prince. The theme music of the entire show was You Can't Hurry Love by Phil Collins. We brought an actual dog on stage for the play within a play at the end, and one performace all the Athenians were so distracted by the dog backstage that Theseus had to improvise-monologue her way through a scene. Demetrius was a nerd and Lysander was a jock. There were tyres on stage at all times for no clear reason.

I was a faerie in the chorus, a role that required me to wear neon workout gear, neon leg warmers, neon fishnet gloves, a multicoloured wig, black fairy wings, and black lipstick. What social category of the 80s did they call this, you ask? Punks.

The most frequently performed Shakespeare play in US high schools is A Midsummer Night's Dream.

On the one hand, this isn't surprising. It's a fantasy-comedy with easy appeal for all ages and a happy ending, and it's very much an ensemble play, not a play that revolves around just a few lead performers: it gives many different young actors with different talents a chance to shine.

But in a way it is surprising, because you wouldn't guess its popularity from fictional media. In sitcoms, cartoons, middle grade books, etc., whether in high school, middle school, or even elementary school, it seems that Shakespeare productions in schools are always Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, and more Romeo and Juliet.

Of course this is mainly for shipping potential between the boy and girl playing the two leads: "the protagonist plays Romeo or Juliet with their secret crush as their co-star" is probably the most common variant. But even when there's no shipping, Romeo and Juliet tends to be the play of choice: for example, the Brady Bunch episode where Marcia is cast as Juliet and becomes an arrogant prima donna.

So the Derry schools just had their Christmas play and it was AWESOME! I helped design some of the costumes and it was flipping awesome. @stan-the-bird-boy and @eddiekaspbrak-official did AWESOME.

For those who didn’t see it, it was Christmas Carol, IN DERRY, and here’s a picture Eddie snuck and took of his Christmas Past costume. It’s sorta girly but it’s like.. he’s a heyday glamorous dude before gender norms slapped him down and the glam was ruined.

Eddie may not be pregnant but he always does deliver!

Here’s a picture that’s a bit more professional-looking of Stan’s Christmas Yet To Come. You can’t even tell it’s him.

I woullllld tag Henry bc Patrick is like the student director or whatever the flip but he said he’s gonna make his own post, and also sometimes he’s an asshole. So courtesy of @sonia-kaspbrak-official here’s a picture of all of us outside the school ready to see Eds and Stan The Man:

@richie-trashmouth-tozier is so proud of his boyfriend, @mikehanlon76 is just there (hi Mike) @people-call-me-haystack is AWESOME AS ALWAYS, and @bill--denbrough looks kind of emo but who cares. OUTFITS ALL ON ME.. yeah I got Ben that necklace teehee. Yeah my dress is festive so I’ll probably not wear it again until next Christmas but still!

author: lilbuns

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tags: Alternate Universe - High School, School Play, Implied Sexual Content, Enemies to Lovers, dream speaking old english thats hot, Swearing, Boys Kissing, GEORGE IS SO STUBBORN, dream is so cocky, Real Names, Romeo and Juliet References, Sloppy Makeouts, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Getting Together, kind of?

summary: one where Dream is casted as Romeo, George is casted as Juliet, and the two have a very hard time reading inbetween the lines of lust and hate

quote:

“i hate you”

Clay leaned down to kiss George’s chest. Kissed down, down further, mouth hot on his pale skin. “I hate you too, baby. “

…how come we never talk about the 🎸king Doomstar Requiem school play (well as I call it anyway there’s no like props or costumes or anything, it’s more concert style but still they performed a Klok opera in its entirety!) and how Brendon Small was a sweet enough dude to lend his time and energy to this. And while I do understand the concern about how Metalocalypse is a hard R and the content isn’t altered that much, I get that but then again to paraphrase Deadpool 2 “Doomstar is a family movie” /hj….no but seriously at least the vast majority are like teenagers that are at least old enough to interact with the media without issues (and presumably the 10-13 year olds at least had like guidance at least).