Playtime's Begun

[inthebones]

Who: Hapless students
What: Mandatory torture sessions auditions
When: On a Saturday unreasonably early in the morning
Where: The High School Auditorium

Oh, dear.

She had never realized quite how much fun it was to indulge herself in these power trips.  It was quite unbecoming, really, but at some point, dealing with alternate universe nonsense and endless cries of but I'm actually 5000 years old and I don't need to be in school had exacted their toll.  It seemed Miss Traitor's habit of cackling maniacally after assigning 50 page proofs on the existence of logic hadn't been due to mild senility after all.  One day, these students would outgrow their studies (excepting the 5000 year olds) and realize how much trouble and effort it took to derive these truly diabolical schemes concocted for the sole purpose of making every moment of their waking lives miserable.  They'd appreciate it.  Eventually.  Perhaps some would even grow up to be teachers themselves to pass on the thrill of the hunt to the next generation.

..............

The preceding, of course, was exactly what each and every one of the horrified students entering class Friday morning thought as they beheld the following neatly taped announcement. 

MANDATORY SCHOOL PLAY AUDITIONS
TOMORROW MORNING
SIGN-UP BELOW FOR TIME SLOTS AND CHARACTER PARTS FOR WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED

followed by a neat listing of the names of every student in school, simply as an indication that yes, she would know if you didn't show up.

Truly they were dealing with a mastermind.

((Auditions:
Please post to the appropriate character's topic.  You are welcome to audition with another student simultaneously for different parts in a group if you wish!  In that case, just post to one of the characters' topics.
You are also welcome to have several people auditioning for the same part combating each other in one thread.  Maybe literally.
Any other teacher in the school is welcome to respond to an audition with their own input on the subject. 
This is really just for fun.  You can still be involved in the play if you don't audition.  The exception to this is for the characters of Romeo and Juliet, which will be chosen from among the auditions.  Please note that all parts are non-gender-specific.

Thank you!))

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ROMEO

[inthebones]

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

[ Just this look. The one she is giving you right now, Susan. ]

[strike_you_out]

[With his cap's visor pulled low over his eyes, Slugger awaits his session of torture and public humiliation at Susan's "request" (though it was more inline with forceful coercion...) He keeps his gaze steadily fixed on the script of dialogue he's supposed to read with no clue as to whom he's supposed to read them.]


[ooc] Slugger's partner will be Ai Enma as Juliet.

[jaws5sonofjaws]

[Mart is wants this role. And all of the ladies.]

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... Yo. I guess I'm auditioning for Romeo, or something.

... Ahem. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

(... Isn't the sun actually supposed to be painful to look at? And it's also occasionally a cause of skin cancer.)

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

(I'm not really sure if the sun "killing" the moon is really an apt metaphor there, considering that it continues to return every night.)

Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?

(Speaking, yet saying nothing... Kind of like Haruhi then. Or at least, nothing important.)

Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?

(I'd be a little concerned if someone's eyes were located anywhere other than their head...)

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

(... What kind of person goes on these kinds of big long rambles about the appearance of a radiant beauty anyway? And why would anyone even care to hear about it? If I were the one writing a story here, I'd at least try to keep things to the point and not go off on strange rambling tangents that don't have anything to do with the topic at hand... I mean, it's only polite right to not keep people bogged down in various kinds of long winded nonsense...

I mean, is there anyone who actually enjoys studying Shakespeare in school? If there was, I would be greatly surprised. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with Shakespeare's works in and of themselves, but they're clearly a product of a different day and age. Does anybody even understand half the dialogue without having it explained anyway? I mean, it's almost like looking at a bizarre other language, which barely shares just enough similarity to what's spoken today to barely be comprehended.)

Re: ROMEO

[suchaprettybear]

[So excited]

What do I do first?

[noluckduck]

[Man, mandatory auditions are such bullshit.

So Clover, in a particularly childish hissy-fit, decided that if she was going to be forced to do this, she might as well try for a male role. The big one, even.

For some reason, she actually expects Susan to be offended by this.]

'Sup, ma'am.

[worstvikingever]

[HICCUP HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S DOING HERE. But it said mandatory so he's here, and he doesn't know this play at all but someone gave him a monologue to read so he stood in the right line for the character and he has no idea which character it is except that he's got the right monologue, right?

ohgodswhyishehere

The monologue doesn't make a whole lot of sense when he reads it to himself. He's practiced reading it out loud a couple of times and that helps it make more sense, though.]

Um... hi, Su... Miss Susan. Should I just... go ahead and read this?

Re: ROMEO

[wweh]

[No doubt, Eridan is nervous. Though, he won't show it off. This is his chance to fuckin' shine and he knows it, so he walks on, being as pompous and as douche-y as ever, picking this scene because it felt natural, and mostly because Feferi picked a Juliet one. Besides, there's enough first world problems in here to be suitable for Eridan.]
'Tis torture, an' not mercy: heawen is here,
WWhere Juliet lives; an' ewery cat and dog
An' little mouse, ewery unwworthy thing,
[ Oh god, his accent is coming out. he doesn't care at this point, making sure to Glare at the audience here, especially those seated around Feferi and any low-bloods in the audience.]
Liwe here in heawen and may look on her;
But Romeo may not: more walidity,
More honourable state, more courtship liwes
In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize
On the wwhite wwonder a' dear Juliet's hand
An' steal immortal blessin' from her lips,
[as he's saying this, he gets down on his knees and shakes his fists into the air overdramatically.]
Wwho even in pure and westal modesty,
Still blush, as thinkin' their own kisses sin;
But Romeo may not; he is banished:
Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:
They are free men, but I am banished.
[He raises his voice in a rage, oh whoever this guy was talking to he was not fuckin' getting it in Eridan's eyes.]
And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean a' death, though ne'er so mean,
But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?
O friar, the damned use that wword in hell;
Howwlin's attend it: howw hast thou the heart,
Bein a diwine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, an' my friend profess'd,
To mangle me wwith that wword 'banished'?

[aside from the obvious accent, his version of the scene portrays a bit more anger than whininess. Though whenever Juliet is mentioned, his eyes are focused on Feferi, wherever she may be. As for his movment around the stage, it was pretty goddamn over the top, because everyone needs to pay attention to him goddammit.After a deep breath and a hopeful wait for applause, he asks the most obvious question on his mind.]

I got the part right?

[miraculls]

[Gamzee takes to the stage, glances at the script...and proceeds to snap his fingers to a beat and rap the monologue, occasionally honking between lines.]

How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

[He pauses and squints at the script, looking confused.]

Yo, I ain't got nothing against whatever smart motherfucker done wrote down these sick beats, but uhhhh...I think he might have all what done it wrong. None of this shit rhymes.

JULIET

[inthebones]

[commentboxtroll]

[You can hand him a script and you can force him to stand on the stage, but it'll take more than that to get him to make any effort towards this travesty. Especially considering...]

You gave me the wrong part.

[roadroller]

[another day, another entertainment avenue that Rin (and now Len) are trying to upstage Miku at. When it's their turn, Rin bounces forward with her twin in tow, wearing a dress that she hopes is cute and innocent enough to portray the role well.]

Can we audition for our parts together? ♪

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi didn't mean to wind up in this line. It was an accident! But regardless, she has her monologue prepared. And it's not the infamous balcony one, even. Instead, she's picked one from Act 3, Scene 2. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and channels her feelings into it. After she clears her throat once, she begins to speak.]

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name
When I, thy three-hours wife, hath mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have killed my husband!
Back, foolish tears. Back to your native spring!
Your tributary drops belong to woe, which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.

[She pauses, giving a bitter laugh.]

My husband lives, who Tybalt would have slain...
Tybalt's dead, who would have slain my husband...
All this is comfort, wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worse than Tybalt's death -
I would forget it fain, but, oh, it presses in my memory
Like damned guilty deeds in sinners' minds!
"Tybalt is dead - and Romeo banished."
Banished, that one word, banished, hath slain ten-thousand Tybalts!
Romeo is banished -- that is mother, father, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all slain, all dead!
There is no measure, no bound, no limit in that word's death...
No words can that woe sound!

[Her stage movements seem natural, even if her voice is a bit shaky sometimes. It's practically in time with the words.]

Re: JULIET

[returntosender]

I-I think there's been some mistake.

[One that involved yet another person thinking his name was tied to a girl-who likely would have wanted to try out for the part of Juliet. And Hope neither was a girl, nor wanted to be cast in a play as the role of a girl.]

[oathsofademon]

No.

[You can't make him audition for this, woman.]

[virtualdiva]

[Miku has shown up at the auditions, wearing this. Yes, it was necessary.

Anyway, she's already striding forward, with the script in her hands and oozing confidence. She's sure to win this one, she knows it! She takes in a deep breath (though she doesn't really need one) and opens her mouth.]

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a...a...Cape-you-let?

[...sob.]

[extraordinarily]

[ When Haruhi Suzumiya walks in, she’s wearing a wig (which makes her hair longer - after all, she had a haircut recently) as well as an accurate Juliet-esque costume. If you’ve seen pictures back in the day, well. That’s Haruhi right now.

She has an evil grin on her face and she’ll just shout loudly, her arm over a manikin that looks somewhat like a clash between Kyon and Romeo.

… Don’t even ask where she got it. She’ll wave, shouting loudly: ]

Yoo-hoo~! This is where I audition for Juliet, right? [ Haruhi will place the manikin down, placing her hands on her hips, grinning triumphantly, puffing out her chest. ]

MERCUTIO

[inthebones]

Re: MERCUTIO

[bleuflag]

[Very grudgingly, Sin wandered into auditions. He had mercifully been able to catch himself a timeslot that wasn't too early in the morning, and after some consultation (and lots of script practice) with his mother, the recommended part of Mercutio.]

[At least this way, he got to fight some guys and didn't have to have any romantic scenes- that was all he could ask for, really; he was hoping for some background part where he didn't have to speak.]

[With a ragged sigh, he wanders towards the stage, glancing at the teacher for her okay to start. Yup, he was one of those lazy kids that had to be cattle-prodded into doing anything.]

TYBALT

[inthebones]

[sonthatdisappoints]

[Mordred might have been the only male who wouldn't have cared one way or the other what particular gender his role would have been -- having a girl masquerading as a man in order to rule as king for a 'father' tended to skew one's perceptions of gender roles a tad -- but as luck would have it, everyone had already envisioned him in a role that was gender-appropriate.

Hot-headed, constantly irritated, tsundere as they came... all Mordred would have to do was memorise the actual lines. No acting skill for the role of Tybalt was necessary at all.

The problem was that he didn't particularly want to participate, simmering even as he ground out his lines... which, considering the character he was playing, might have worked out for the best.]

What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

NURSE

[inthebones]

[sparkling_eyes]

[Lyon is really a horrible actress, but her sense of responsibility is far too strong to allow her to simply ignore the auditions, especially after being called out in class the other day as a model student. She isn't fit for the limelight, but she reasons the nurse sounds like a good role that shouldn't be too difficult.]

All right, I'm ready! What scene do you want me to read?

FRIAR

[inthebones]

[exorcizes]

( Whelp! It did say mandatory and Yukio wasn't the sort to not follow the rules, still... )

Any scene in particular?

PARIS

[inthebones]

[waffuport]

[Viki has no idea what she's doing here. Something about being mandatory...? Either way, here she is, up on stage, holding a script in one hand and a toy sword in the other.]

Um, Montague? Montague's banished? [A pause as she glances down at the script.] Did he murder my cousin? But I don't have a cousin...anymore, I guess?

[She waves her sword a bit, in a confused sort of manner.]

ALL OTHERS

[inthebones]

[sara_mudou]

[Sara is on stage, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and beaming.]

You want me to read for Lady Capulet, right?

[It's not quite Juliet, but she still gets to wear a pretty dress and doesn't have to kiss anyone! So it's probably better, really.

Especially since a small part means she won't have to memorize many lines.]

PEANUT GALLERY (is this okay?)

[ex_haveaplan64]

(At some point in the audition the students will have gained an audience. Somehow he's managed to hold a perfect poker face despite the shenanigans that have been going on.)

((OOC: I'll delete if you don't want to thread this.))

Absolutely!

[inthebones]

[Susan, naturally, will sense the presence of the janitor in the back, but doesn't quite acknowledge him yet. There is a lull coming up as she goes through her notes.]

((Is this meant for Susan to respond to or the students? Either way, I will leave this respondable and/or ignorable for now.))