On Dramatic Irony
Nov. 11th, 2013 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliamThe man playing Julius Caesar in the Play What I Am In (1) has been really struggling to learn his lines.
The director appears to have sacked him over the weekend. The email from her to the entire cast saying JC was stepping down and the understudy arrangements was a little unclear. JC popped in to say farewell (2) and from his valedictory speech I think he was keen to stay on but had been asked to step down.
His replacement is a guy I know moderately well. He’s a good actor, is already in the play in many of the same scenes so knows most of the business, has already learned about half the lines so that will be fine. A few other people have been bumped up to larger roles.
I am unaffected.
Given the subject matter of the play I have been fighting the urge to make tasteless jokes for the last 48 hours.
(1) Julius Caesar
(2) which I thought very handsome of him.
The director appears to have sacked him over the weekend. The email from her to the entire cast saying JC was stepping down and the understudy arrangements was a little unclear. JC popped in to say farewell (2) and from his valedictory speech I think he was keen to stay on but had been asked to step down.
His replacement is a guy I know moderately well. He’s a good actor, is already in the play in many of the same scenes so knows most of the business, has already learned about half the lines so that will be fine. A few other people have been bumped up to larger roles.
I am unaffected.
Given the subject matter of the play I have been fighting the urge to make tasteless jokes for the last 48 hours.
(1) Julius Caesar
(2) which I thought very handsome of him.
