Well, by "script" I don't mean it's all scripted - it's more "we can't have them reading speeches if we don't have speeches for them to read!" The original plan was just to gather and read speeches; no scenes at all, and all else failing that's still the plan. We just figured - hey, if we're all there, in costume, we may as well act out a few scenes; why not? And then someone offered to build us a guillotine, and it all went odd from there.
Please, anything you can find and translate would be helpful! I still need those two; and if you can find something for Danton to say I would be very grateful. Really, if you can find/have anything in English, we'd be happy for it. ^___^
We are most certainly raiding a costume shop; our dorm is actually down the street from one, so we're very lucky in that regard...
Well, I don't want you to think too seriously about the whole role thing. Most of the people who are playing parts are not familiar with the Revolution and are doing this mostly for fun - it's still just a July 14th picnic in the park at heart; the costumes and video camera parts are just extra perks. Everyone's going to get overly hot and overly sugar-hyper, and I suspect "serious" is going to go out the window very quickly. As will "in character". Everyone who doesn't have a main character is essentially going to switch between minor parts for the reenactment part of the day, and then the video will likely just consist of people sitting around, making jokes, and eating food. So I wouldn't worry too much about being in character and just play someone you like, because chances are everything you do will be ad-lib. And probably jokingly. (An example, perhaps, is that our Desmoulins and Saint-Just actors have discovered that their characters don't like each other, and have happily announced that they've decided that they will get into a food fight before the day is over. They have - reluctantly - agreed to hold it off until after filming is done. And those are among those who actually DO know something about the Revolution...)
...basically, what my rambling is attempting to imply is: be anyone you like. If you'd like to be Le Bas, we have a pistol for you to shoot yourself with on 9 Thermidor; if you want to be Eleonore, that means our Charlotte Corday isn't the only girl-dressed person in the cast; having a Couthon would just be interesting...all good choices, each as excellent as the other. ^^
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Please, anything you can find and translate would be helpful! I still need those two; and if you can find something for Danton to say I would be very grateful. Really, if you can find/have anything in English, we'd be happy for it. ^___^
We are most certainly raiding a costume shop; our dorm is actually down the street from one, so we're very lucky in that regard...
Well, I don't want you to think too seriously about the whole role thing. Most of the people who are playing parts are not familiar with the Revolution and are doing this mostly for fun - it's still just a July 14th picnic in the park at heart; the costumes and video camera parts are just extra perks. Everyone's going to get overly hot and overly sugar-hyper, and I suspect "serious" is going to go out the window very quickly. As will "in character". Everyone who doesn't have a main character is essentially going to switch between minor parts for the reenactment part of the day, and then the video will likely just consist of people sitting around, making jokes, and eating food. So I wouldn't worry too much about being in character and just play someone you like, because chances are everything you do will be ad-lib. And probably jokingly. (An example, perhaps, is that our Desmoulins and Saint-Just actors have discovered that their characters don't like each other, and have happily announced that they've decided that they will get into a food fight before the day is over. They have - reluctantly - agreed to hold it off until after filming is done. And those are among those who actually DO know something about the Revolution...)
...basically, what my rambling is attempting to imply is: be anyone you like. If you'd like to be Le Bas, we have a pistol for you to shoot yourself with on 9 Thermidor; if you want to be Eleonore, that means our Charlotte Corday isn't the only girl-dressed person in the cast; having a Couthon would just be interesting...all good choices, each as excellent as the other. ^^