TEF Theatre

Kiwizoom's picture
I had an idea that it'd be cool to garrison up a few deer to try a play. : ) However many participants is up to the popularity of this idea, but I think we can make it work ^^

The deer have many emotes, which would be useful to do a silent play. The play would have to be something most people know, like red riding hood, Bambi, or Phantom of the Opera. Any ideas for plays would be great, because some will work better than others as far as the supplies in costumes and emotes we have : ) I think the script would have to be simple and easy to understand and posted on the Theatre page so people could read it and follow along as best as possible! ^^ I figure if enough want to join, there could be a choir too!



~~The play currently underway~~~

The play to be performed is: Tale of Tales Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood

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VOLOUNTEERING ACTORS: #actors needed: 5
Seed...............Woodcutter
Ephra........................Wolf
Rinta................ ( mailed )
Emiva........................Red
Zergarikiaka.......Grandma
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VOLOUNTEERING UNDERSTUDIES: needed, if an actor can't make it to showing
Fayne
Tae
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OTHER OFFICERS:
director of play- Kiwizoom
director of costumes-Noortiss
director of choir-none, none needed

Everyone should help with script, this should be a consensus :3


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Here's an outline of what I had in mind if it works:

Get a group of people together to do the play and assign roles. Give ample time for said deer to get the right spelldata, a costume rehearsal if you will. Some form of instant chat like msn would be a great help to iron out the wrinkles of the play making ^^

I think some basic roles would work like this..

A couple playing characters, about 3 or 4. Costumes will be decided that fit those characters best : ) These participants should be most trustworthy for showing up purposes
Some extras and small playing parts will probably be needed : )
If there's a choir, those deer may chose masks of various types and perch on the outer edges of the playing area and moo to their heart's content during choir singing times
If the play moves to a different area, I think a designated deer with a silencer mask should follow the play in tow and moo to alert the audience that it's time to move and show them where
Dying sequences would be neat, because you could just log off and you poof : ) I think the participating actor could then rejoin a little later to be fly on the wall.
I hadn't thought of much else after that, but certainly all is open to discussion ^^

When everyone's ready, we schedule a big rehearsal to test out the script and make revisions.

Once it's downpat, set a date!
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So anyway, those are my ideas, if this is destined to happen : ) I figure a thespian group of deer would be downright awesome!

*Oh, by the way! I think fawns would be a GREAT addition to the choir, they've got nice high pitched voices!
Seed's picture

I had an idea like this

I had an idea like this once: I support 100%! Sign Seed up: he's very interested in art. I mean, I guess the schedule of rehearsals and performances will make whether or not he can show up, but I'm off until mid-january, which leaves my schedule very open.

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Ephra's picture

YES Dancing, singing,

YES

Dancing, singing, theatre... I have no idea what we'd perform, anything's fine with me.

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Tuhka's picture

YESHH That would be awesome.

YESHH That would be awesome. This idea's been in my head sometimes too... xD


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Custard's picture

I love the idea!!!

I love the idea!!! Smiling
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Kiwizoom's picture

@Seed: Thank you! I think

@Seed: Thank you! I think I'll start a list then of possible participants! I think if this gets off nice enough, we'll start practicing. I don't think the play will be winter related since christmas is almost over, so it will leave the play choices quite open ^^ The showing should probably be short and entertaining and most likely in january!

@Ephra: Thanks for support! We'll have to choose a play first : P Then talk about roles!

This was what I was doing in the graveyard, hosting my one man play xD

Awesome! Callie and I were

Awesome!

Callie and I were considering organizing a play of Romeo and Juliet, since four members here have R&J deer...:3

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Ephra's picture

Ohhh I thought maybe you

Ohhh Laughing out loud I thought maybe you were fighting off spirits in the graveyard. I guess I was fighting against that.. big scary pit?

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Kiwizoom's picture

Thanks Custard!

Thanks Custard!

It's Lorak's job to fight

Laughing out loud

It's Lorak's job to fight off spirits. |D

<33

-- Dannii <3

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silverdragon's picture

OOOoooo great idea! Sign me

OOOoooo great idea!

Sign me and Raffles up.

I do abosolutely didly squat all day everyday! (Well hopefully not for long, i need money!!!!) so i can reherse practically anytime.
Kiwizoom's picture

Hey Quamar! Unfortunately I

Hey Quamar! Unfortunately I just had this idea today : )

Cool Dannii! ^^ Who knows what play we would do : )

Ephra: Yeah sorry about being confusing there xD That was one scary pit though!
Kiwizoom's picture

Thank you Tae! Glad to!

Thank you Tae! Glad to! We'll especially need active people to be a main drive and for lead actors
1273's picture

wawa! diz eez en awesome an

wawa!
diz eez en awesome an awesome idea!!!!
Rinta would love to join it!!
great idea!!
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Kiwizoom's picture

Thanks a lot Rinta! I've

Thanks a lot Rinta! I've added you to the list ^^

Play ideas anyone?

xD If you ever decide to do

xD If you ever decide to do a Romeo and Juliet play, my deer Tybalt can star as...well, Tybalt.

-- Dannii <3

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Kiwizoom's picture

Haha! Thanks Dannii, I'll

Haha! Thanks Dannii, I'll keep it in mind : ) Are you volounteering only for a Romeo&Juliet play then?

Yep xD -- Dannii

Paralda's picture

Bambi!!! <3 nice

Bambi!!!
<3 nice ideaaa!!!


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Her's picture

ROMEO&JULIETYES. I HAVE

ROMEO&JULIETYES.
I HAVE BENVOLIO. 8D lol and we have a Mercutio and a Romeo and I think Avani might be making a Juliet. hohohohohothisisepic.
Ephra's picture

Waiting for Godot- two deer

Waiting for Godot- two deer stand under a tree and nothing happens. The only hard part would be keeping the audience awake. Laughing out loud

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Kiwizoom's picture

Godot eh? xD Must be a

Godot eh? xD Must be a boring play!

Yay! Okay, I'll put up Bambi and Romeo&Juliet, I think we have an overwhelming majority rooting for Romeo&Juliet though!!

Gee, I'll have to re-read that one ^^
Seed's picture

I'm gonna request...an

I'm gonna request...an archtypical sort of story: Romeo and Juliet is nice, but we might need something simpler for pantomime. It has a big cast, though, so that might be nice...

Maybe some sort of fairytale: I'm not really sure which one, though. Maybe Cinderella or something: Seed would make a fabulous Fairy Godmother...err...Father.

We need, in my opinion, something kinda simple, that can be read into fairly easily.

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Hmmm... cB Little Red Riding

Hmmm...

cB

Little Red Riding hood ftw.

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Ephra's picture

I was thinking about Little

I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood too.
Romeo and Juliet could work although all the folks who've already got those roles would need to volunteer here...

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Kiwizoom's picture

Yes, I think something

Yes, I think something easily recognizable would be nice : ) On the other hand, a lot of people want in if it's romeo and juliet.

In my opinion, we should start small in acting, but if everyone is gung-ho for r&j I'm not going to fight it ^^; we would probably have to water it down though. Like choose the most recognizable scene(s)

I like your idea about faerie godmothers and tales though : ) Since we really do have casting powers. Heck, especially the shapeshift spell, that would be very interesting as far as curses.
Seed's picture

I could agree to red riding

I could agree to red riding hood: it's pretty easy to follow. Costuming might be a little hard, but not impossible....

Oh, what about a version of that children's book "Is Your Mamma a Llama?" or whatever it was called?...or maybe that would be too simple?...Yeah, that would be too simple.

or maybe Sleeping Beauty? If we wanted a bigger cast, we could do something closer to the Disney Version...Although Prophecy might be hard to handle without words.

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Kiwizoom's picture

Haha! That'd be interesting

Haha! That'd be interesting to pull off ^-^ I bet red would be a cute little fawn with pink flowers on her head! I wonder how we'd do the 'my, what big eyes-nose-teeth you have' part though, hehe
Kiwizoom's picture

I've never read that

I've never read that book..

Hmm, maybe ^^ I suppose we could try to simulate things like kissing. we'd need understudies to be sleeping deer and pick up where the awake actor left off, because deer only sleep after 5 minutes. Or, the acting deer could quick logout and log back in to be 'sleeping'
Seed's picture

How would the wolf go

How would the wolf go disguising himself? Maybe audience participation at the right part? And when they went through the "oh, what big thing", it could be
Red: scratch ground (or bow+scratch ground, "point"), head tilt?
Wolf: nod, sneeze off portion of "grandma" costume until there's the "wolf" costume in that part showing.
(repeat twice, until all set pieces are "wolf" costume)

and kissing...nuzzling, or maybe a really, really close bow on a sleeping deer (so the heads are touching). Doing sleeping, true, might be pretty hard....The "sleeping actor" thing might work better, since logging off/logging on might be hard to do in terms of coordination. Or sitting could just be our stand-in for "sleeping," with some suspension of disbelief mixed in.

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Kiwizoom's picture

Oooh, that's a very good

Oooh, that's a very good idea! I like that! It would be really cute!

^-^ Yeah, I think the audience would get it if it's generally touching
Seed's picture

Yeah...The audience would

Yeah...The audience would understand our limitations, I'd think. And through that understanding, understand our meaning, as long as it's not too obscure.

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Noortiss's picture

What a good idea, I would

What a good idea, I would love to join in too if I can.
Maybe phantom of the opera?

Oh and red could also be a mini with a red pelt
And you could just transform the wolf into a men(deer)eating stag Sticking out tongue
Shiori's picture

Oh wow how did I miss this?

Oh wow how did I miss this? -shot-


It's a really unique idea! I always imagined one of my deer being in theatre XD However I'm having a hard time visualizing the going ons, and would probably end up messing it up >_< Tis my way. But I'd love to see what you guys do with it...


:3 By the way, kissing can

:3 By the way, kissing can be acted with sniffing+bowing, perhaps?

-- Dannii <3

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Seed's picture

@ Noortis: but what would

@ Noortis: but what would a deer-eating stag look like, exactly? that's the issue. probably the big ultra-prong antlers...all the better to fight you with, my deer....

@ Danii: do those actions fuse, or just go one at a time? I've never tried to combine those two.

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Kiwizoom's picture

Yeah, deffinately : ) I

Yeah, deffinately : ) I think we should start out with Red Riding hood then ^^ It'd be a great starter piece, but we should find roles for all the volunteers because it's only a 2 actor play
Noortiss's picture

skull mask and a grey pelt

skull mask and a grey pelt would be nice I think
Seed's picture

As for roles...what about

As for roles...what about doing a version with the grandmother and the heroic woodcutter? maybe even Red's mom, at the beginning...

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Kiwizoom's picture

whoops! Thank you all xD I

whoops! Thank you all xD I didn't see the new posts. Yes! I was thinking about a dark pelted deer with the black orca mask maybe, and some big antlers like the grey ones that reach backwards and have little loops in them. Or we could use the deer mask and the brown mottle pelt, but thing is even though it looks more wolfie it might not come acrosst as intimidating. ( actually the deer mask might look good with the light grey pelt ) edit-OOPS sorry Noortiss! xD
Noortiss's picture

@Seed: Should be possible,

@Seed: Should be possible, seeing all the enthusiasm over here.

I could take care of the costumes, trying out things, making screenshots and putting the different ideas up so everyone can choose later what looks best?
I have TEF on both my computer and laptop so I can help myself with casting and will save the spelldata so it will be easier for the actors to put costumes on...
Seed's picture

I vote that either the wolf

I vote that either the wolf or the woodcutter should have the big antlers. For bigness.

What about Granny?

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Kiwizoom's picture

Good idea Noortiss : ) If

Good idea Noortiss : ) If you'd like to propose and prepare costumes, go right ahead!

Oh, I suppose we should have grandma, and then the wolf wearing grandma's outfit... right... xD
Noortiss's picture

Those white antlers, with

Those white antlers, with all those different branches things on it, if you know what I mean. It will look like old white hair or something maybe...

@Kiwizoom: Yeah, lol, that the wolf sneezes it off first and when he is revealed he sneezes again and is back wolf. So he needs first the wolf set, then the grandma set on top of it and then the wolf set again.
Ephra's picture

Granny would probably have

Granny would probably have some wimpy little antlers, like the magpie "veils" or something. Grey pelt would probably be good for that character, but then what about the wolf?

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Seed's picture

I suggested an idea for the

I suggested an idea for the wolf's disguise, actually: Audience participation! Help the Wolf find the right spells to disguise as Grandma! That might take too long, though....so we could do the version Noortis described.

Also, I'd like to point out that I view the big white antlers with the lots and lots of tongs as being big, powerful agressive antlers.

The woodcutter will need a costume, too...He'd need something Heroic-looking.

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Noortiss's picture

It is a fun idea, but

It is a fun idea, but besides that it will take to long, I woulnd't want to help the bad wolf with eating a cute little fawn Sticking out tongue
Kiwizoom's picture

Ahhh good idea! : ) That'd

Ahhh good idea! : ) That'd be a lot of work to get a 3-layer costume. ^^
Hmm, it /could/ take awhile to get a good grandma costume though, through the audience. hehe, i generally like idea of audience participation though ^^ maybe in a different way though

yeah, we prolly need a dark pelt for the wolf and a light one for grandma, totally different sets altogether

oh, and who's the woodcutter? I never heard of that before
Ephra's picture

Maybe woodcutter could have

Maybe woodcutter could have one of the brown pelts, something kind of natural/rustic.. I dunno. Laughing out loud Maybe with the default antlers too.

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Noortiss's picture

the 3-layer costume is not

the 3-layer costume is not so difficult to make Eye

the woodcutter is the one that saves red btw

edit:
going to work? :S
I'm going to bed xD
(It's already 0:13 over here o.0)
Kiwizoom's picture

I've got to go to work now,

I've got to go to work now, so you won't be hearing from me for sometime : ) Maybe until tomorrow