May. 13th, 2014

seekingferret: Two warning signs one above the other. 1) Falling Rocks. 2) Falling Rocs. (Default)
On [personal profile] roga's recommendation I saw the Improvised Shakespeare Company last night.

On the one hand, their shtick is comparatively simple: They take a single prompt from the audience, a title, and use it as the seed to improvise a one hour pseudo-Shakepearean play.

On the other hand, this is a really impressively complicated brief. They develop characters with unique narrative arcs and mannerisms, make puns and rhymes in mock-Elizabethan English, and tell a complete story made up on the spot.

Last night, I saw the one and only performance of "Romeo and Julie Andrews". I'd say its constituent ingredients were about thirty percent Romeo and Juliet, thirty percent Sound of Music, 20 percent Mary Poppins, 10 percent Macbeth, 10 percent assorted other Shakespeare and Julie Andrews jokes. A roving gang chimney sweeps (and one bellringer) plotted ineffectual revenge on the son of King Andrews of Scotland. King Andrews's daughter Julie, newly returned from the convent and overflowing with hormones (In one of the best lines of the night, she declares that she is thirteen-going-on-fourteen), is to be married to a mysterious foreign prince until she elopes with MacRomeo. MacRomeo and Julie Andrews are wed by a trio of woodland sprites that are a little bit Weird Sisters, a little bit Ariel and Caliban and Puck, and a little bit Von Trapp. The wedding ceremony was a punny invocation of the complete cycle of "Do, a Deer". The whole thing was amazing.
seekingferret: Photo of the gragger from the Season 1 Agents of SHIELD finale, with the text Agents of P.U.R.I.M. in the SHIELD font. (purim)
CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW THERE WAS A GRAGGER ON THE AGENTS OF SHIELD FINALE? AND IT WAS FROM AGENT TRIPLETT'S BOX OF OLD HOWLING COMMANDOS GOODIES, WHICH MEANS IT PROBABLY BELONGED TO IZZY COHEN, RIGHT? SO APPARENTLY IZZY COHEN WAS INVOLVED WITH SHIELD AFTER ALL, YAY! AND HE WAS MAKING ALL SORTS OF RIDICULOUS GADGETS FOR THEM, WHICH MAKES SENSE SINCE IN COMIC CANON HE'S THE MECHANIC, RIGHT?

I WANT ALL THE FIC ABOUT IZZY COHEN AND HIS EXPLODING GRAGGERS. ALL THE FIC. EVEN IF I HAVE TO WRITE IT MYSELF, WHICH I PROBABLY WILL.


THERE WAS A GRAGGER IN THE AGENTS OF SHIELD FINALE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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