[for the heads of the various theatre departments] dated to april 9

[legendarymadman]

Geoffrey's decision to hold the meeting at his home rather than the stage wasn't entirely based on the fact that two of the five people who needed to meet lived there, but that certainly didn't hurt. Mostly he was thinking that they had a table large enough to seat everyone, even if they had to use a mix of chairs and stools to sit at it, and ready

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[wizard_errant]

Coffee. Coffee is good. Dairine hasn't got much to suggest, however, just at the moment--she's better with implementing ideas than coming up with them. Besides, The Tempest is so far the only play she's been involved in. She props her chin on her hands and looks around the table, ready to jump in if she thinks of anything, and soak up whatever she can learn otherwise.

[willbewonderful]

Duck doesn't know about staging so much as he knows about building, so for the time being he drinks his coffee in silence, uncomfortable speaking until he hears what the others have to say.

[legendarymadman]

"You'll be happy to know," says Geoffrey, giving Duck a grin, "that we'll actually have occasion to use the balcony in this one. And for more than to just hang sails off of."

[willbewonderful]

Duck grins back. "Yeah? Anything I need to do to it?"

[legendarymadman]

"Probably," admits Geoffrey, "but we'll know more when we make a few more decisions about the play. I've read it through a few times now, since deciding to go forward with it, and there are a few directions we could go. We could try to keep the sets and the costumes era-appropriate, or we could throw all that away and update the setting, or decide to go with a mix of the two things."

[squint_artist]

Angela had her sketchbook with her, the first thing she set on the table before seating herself. Two pencils were currently keeping her hair up in a sloppy bun, but she still managed to pull the look off with a bright smile.

"So, I think the costumes should be way easier this time. It's about romance and love and marriage and rumors and things insubstantial and changeable, so I feel like the costumes should be light and airy. White for Hero, of course. The masked ball will probably be hard, just in terms of making masks if the clothes box isn't helpful. But maybe we could drape light fabrics all over the stage, to make it look lush without actually having anything there or anything to move, and to let the actors hide behind and talk behind."

[legendarymadman]

"Oh, we can make masks," says Geoffrey blithely, waving his hand. "We can have a craft workshop one afternoon, construction paper and sparkles, people love that stuff. They'll be heartfelt, if nothing else."

[a_lowly_player]

"Or we can just tool some leather from the clothes box," Will suggests, not willing to see paper masks on stage for what's supposed to be a sophisticated arrangement. "If it happens to start raining in the middle of a show, paper masks have a good chance of falling apart while leather ones...won't."

[squint_artist]

"Ooh, leather," Angela said with a devious grin. "Kinky. But yeah, that would work too. Not much chance for color in that case, since we're sort of lacking in dyes that I know of. But I like that better than arts and crafts day, just because people might get a little silly, and they might fall apart just from use and time, too."

[a_lowly_player]

Will's just glad that this time Geoffrey's picked a play he's actually written. It'll be much easier to give his thoughts on various character motivations and what the text is really saying this time around rather than just playing at guess work.

He just hopes that eventually he can convince Geoffrey to give him a small part in there somewhere. He always acts in the plays he's involved in. It'd be bad luck to slight tradition.