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
From: John Rando <john.rando(a)verizon.net>
To: Bruce Meyer <Bruce.Meyer(a)UTSouthwestern.edu>
Cc: Eric Thomas <Eric.Thomas(a)uth.tmc.edu>du>; Shakespeare at Winedale
1970-2000 alums <winedale-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 8:56:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Winedale-l] Fwd: CampShakespeare '10
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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