[carton253]

Oh, no... I have the other problem... usually no reaction at all. It cracks me up. In the play they are getting ready to do, there is a fight. So the two actors go at it, the rest just stand around looking at each other.

"What would do in real life if a fight broke out in front of you?" I ask.

"Get out of the way. Break it up. Watch!" They respond.

"Then do that!"

Nope, next time we do it, they just stand around looking at each other.

[Overtaxed]

Hair! Did one of the eagle eggs just hatch in the last few minutes? I thought I say the far egg in two pieces with a brown fluff in between. One of the Gwahirs is back on the nest now.

[JenB]

Oh, that sounds like the kind of 'acting' I've had experience with. When I was 13 my Shakespeare class put on scenes from Romeo and Juliet; I was in the scene where Romeo kills Tybalt, as Benvolio (because I could memorize the lines and that's one of the longest parts in that scene.) We were so bad but we had a lot of fun... and only one girl had to read her lines off of cue cards.

Well, we've got three young women playing Romeo, Benvolio, and Tybalt, and the only guy in the class as Mercutio (because that was a long part and he could memorize lines also, and because the other two girls wanted to get to kill someone. Twisted group.) Anyway, we're not wearing costumes or anything - it's just a five minute scene - but the other three have to have swords. One girl shows up with a plastic toy knife, about five inches long. The other girl has a tinfoil-covered cardboard 'broadsword'. And the guy comes in with a genuine, four-foot arm saber that his father or grandfather had! Now that was an interesting scene, especially since he was the first to get 'killed'!

Anyway the really funny part was that this was at a homeschool co-op with rather, er, strict rules about guy-girl contact, a dress code, all that stuff. It was in the rules that unrelated teenagers of opposite genders were not supposed to engage in physical contact. And the scene we were doing required my character to help the 'mortally injured Mercutio' off the stage. (Mercutio was play by the guy, remember). My mother (who taught the class) had to reassure us that this was a special case, being theatre. Oh, that was fun...

In the interest of full disclosure I should perhaps confess that I was protesting too much when I said I wanted to follow the guidelines...

[2Jedismom]

Oh, they just stand around like "stokin' bottles" as my grandmother used to say! A stoking bottle was a bottle of water kept by the wood burning cookstove to cool it down as needed. Grandma used to say "Well, don't just stand there like a stokin' bottle! Do something!"