He'd been in the audience at house left for a few minutes before that. Looking for a
good seat, I guess.
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He was not there very long at all. It wandered in when John came out to begin the
"to be" thing. John was only 4 lines into the speech when I sent Russell Klump
down the aisle to catch it and take it back to the pen.
Doc
On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Stephen Price wrote:
I remember our chicken well. It wandered in through stage right, futzed around on the lip
of the stage, and eventually settled into the one empty chair in the front row stage
left. Near panic blew through the backstage area like wildfire: "There's a live
chicken out there! How can we get rid of it?" The feeling of helplessness was
agonizing, and he was out there for at least a scene & a half, maybe two. In the end,
our resourcefulness failed us. In a comedy, no prob. Somebody could have walked on with
a broom or broadsword or something and chased him off. But in Hamlet? What would you do?
In fact, a pretty good suggestion was put forth by an audience member after the
performance. The wag proposed that John could have taken the bird up at the beginning of
the speech and then: "To be" (H. twists off chicken's head) "or not to
be..."
Okay, '83ers, what have I inflated, conflated, or competely made up here?
Steve
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1983 - A live chicken made an appearance in Hamlet, Act III, scene i. She made her exit
roughly around the line: "there's the respect that make calamity of so long
life," after Hamlet gave her the boot.
On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Bruce Meyer wrote:
the chicken proudly lives with Juan E. Bango - a
mythical and semi-legendary Winedale figure....
juan.e.bango(a)gmail.com
>> Mike Godwin <mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org>
6/14/2010 3:01 PM >>>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Meyer <
Bruce.Meyer(a)utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
the chicken appeared with us in 1979 in AYLI
It also appeared in 1980 in CE (as did felt fruit - I remember Robin
and the Jaynes sisters sewing madly)
It has appeared in the reunion performances in 1990, 1995, 2000, and
2005 ("this dog, my dog...").
Rebekah has ensured that the camp program has had a rubber chicken
every summer since inception (including this summer) - the chicken has
an honored place in our home.
Bruce, if you have an email address for the rubber chicken, I'll add it to
the alumni mailing list.
--Mike
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