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The Wheel Turns
Oct. 21st, 2005 02:15 pmAnother season over, spent discovering another aspect of faire performance that I truly enjoy. There was plenty of both good and bad to go round, and many others have addressed aspects of both on these pages. I've got plenty of opinions on what has happened to KCRF in general, but mine are mostly personal. I can always rant later.
The things that displeased me:
No cast party. We needed one that included every person who came together to make the faire what it is as a whole. Segregating us into smaller factions simply destroyed the whole point. Offering the cast an awards show over a month after the fact that traveling folk can’t even attend only rubs more salt in the wounds. I can only picture a larger scale version of the morning meeting where the cast got to sit around and watch management pat itself on the back with Stars. That is, if they remember to actually have the event at all.
Vivianne – She never quite came out to play the way I wanted her to. I think I threw her off a bit by asking her to take the leap from “adventurous girl” to “Victor-Victoria” without giving her (or myself) enough extra research to draw from, and as a result, she played as a one-note character all season. It was a good note, but she really only came to play on stage. Her lane work could use some fine-tuning. I’ll need to rectify that before next year.
Costuming Issues – I left things too much to the last minute, and did not produce the quality outfits that I am capable of. I had nothing familiar to fall back on this year, so all the patterning was new to me and needed more time then I gave it. Another thing to be fixed well next season.
And on a minor, related note, I kinda missed my breasts. While it does my body image no end of good to live with a man who is bored by cleavage (at least in the front), as a woman, I enjoyed the variety of display that covering up everything else and exposing the tits offered. And on further reflection, it was probably one of the things that I used to be more “Vivianne” in the past. No matter how much I love our show, I came into the festival because I wanted to be the court lady in the pretty dress, and a part of me is always going to want that. It's a much smaller part then it used to be, and I'm willing to go without them for the show, but it's still there.
And Vampires - Usually, I'm all for 'em. I don't even have a problem with the whole Phantom's Feast as a way to continue using the site later into the year, which I believe is now required in order for KCRF to stay where it is. The site could be turned into a very cool haunted village for the rest of October. But please people, do it better than this! Lame ghouls with bad face paint who don't even know how to act like vampires or werewolves is so very very NOT the way to go about it. And mushing your opening weekend into the last weekend of the festival season makes no sense anyway. People who like Halloween stuff will make the extra trip out to the site. Messing with the experience of the thousands of people who attended the final weekend of the festival in order to amuse a couple of hundred is well, really bad marketing, among other things.
The things that pleased me:
OUR SHOW! I love it! It’s grand. It is without doubt the most fun I have had performing at the festival ever. I got to play with my pretty rapier all season, thereby taking it from wall-hanger to useful object status. And I got to make out with Gareth on stage four times a day! I am happy, happy, happiest with what the four of us accomplished this year, and happier even then that that we have created something that even our friends find worth watching. Amusing strangers is easy - making your friends laugh; now that's an accomplishment.
Friends. Making new, reacquainting myself with, mourning the passing of others. I love the fact that KCRF is like Brigadoon, and that we can walk onto the site after a year away, and pick up right where we left off. It’s a comforting feeling.
The gift of time. Faire is over for the year, and now the empty weekends stretch out before me. It will feel, at least for a few weeks, as though I have time enough to accomplish anything. I’m taking advantage of that while it lasts.
That MOON on the last night. Wow. No really, this gets it's own statement. She was still out the next morning when I was leaving for work, shining full and silver in a pink and yellow dawn. Wow.
What I will be doing with my time now:
Super housecleaning. It’s trashed after seven weeks of neglect, and I hate seeing dust bunnies the size of real rabbits lurking on the stairs.
Emptying my mending basket by actually mending the stuff that is in there. I’m tired of the pile of clothes falling on me whenever I go into the sewing area. I want my sewing space to be a place of creativity and relaxation, not more stress.
Un-burying the house from the mountains of paperwork and files that we have accumulated over the years.
That's it until January. There's enough in those three things to keep me quite busy until then.
Oh, and try to post more often here. Need to do that, too. :)
The things that displeased me:
No cast party. We needed one that included every person who came together to make the faire what it is as a whole. Segregating us into smaller factions simply destroyed the whole point. Offering the cast an awards show over a month after the fact that traveling folk can’t even attend only rubs more salt in the wounds. I can only picture a larger scale version of the morning meeting where the cast got to sit around and watch management pat itself on the back with Stars. That is, if they remember to actually have the event at all.
Vivianne – She never quite came out to play the way I wanted her to. I think I threw her off a bit by asking her to take the leap from “adventurous girl” to “Victor-Victoria” without giving her (or myself) enough extra research to draw from, and as a result, she played as a one-note character all season. It was a good note, but she really only came to play on stage. Her lane work could use some fine-tuning. I’ll need to rectify that before next year.
Costuming Issues – I left things too much to the last minute, and did not produce the quality outfits that I am capable of. I had nothing familiar to fall back on this year, so all the patterning was new to me and needed more time then I gave it. Another thing to be fixed well next season.
And on a minor, related note, I kinda missed my breasts. While it does my body image no end of good to live with a man who is bored by cleavage (at least in the front), as a woman, I enjoyed the variety of display that covering up everything else and exposing the tits offered. And on further reflection, it was probably one of the things that I used to be more “Vivianne” in the past. No matter how much I love our show, I came into the festival because I wanted to be the court lady in the pretty dress, and a part of me is always going to want that. It's a much smaller part then it used to be, and I'm willing to go without them for the show, but it's still there.
And Vampires - Usually, I'm all for 'em. I don't even have a problem with the whole Phantom's Feast as a way to continue using the site later into the year, which I believe is now required in order for KCRF to stay where it is. The site could be turned into a very cool haunted village for the rest of October. But please people, do it better than this! Lame ghouls with bad face paint who don't even know how to act like vampires or werewolves is so very very NOT the way to go about it. And mushing your opening weekend into the last weekend of the festival season makes no sense anyway. People who like Halloween stuff will make the extra trip out to the site. Messing with the experience of the thousands of people who attended the final weekend of the festival in order to amuse a couple of hundred is well, really bad marketing, among other things.
The things that pleased me:
OUR SHOW! I love it! It’s grand. It is without doubt the most fun I have had performing at the festival ever. I got to play with my pretty rapier all season, thereby taking it from wall-hanger to useful object status. And I got to make out with Gareth on stage four times a day! I am happy, happy, happiest with what the four of us accomplished this year, and happier even then that that we have created something that even our friends find worth watching. Amusing strangers is easy - making your friends laugh; now that's an accomplishment.
Friends. Making new, reacquainting myself with, mourning the passing of others. I love the fact that KCRF is like Brigadoon, and that we can walk onto the site after a year away, and pick up right where we left off. It’s a comforting feeling.
The gift of time. Faire is over for the year, and now the empty weekends stretch out before me. It will feel, at least for a few weeks, as though I have time enough to accomplish anything. I’m taking advantage of that while it lasts.
That MOON on the last night. Wow. No really, this gets it's own statement. She was still out the next morning when I was leaving for work, shining full and silver in a pink and yellow dawn. Wow.
What I will be doing with my time now:
Super housecleaning. It’s trashed after seven weeks of neglect, and I hate seeing dust bunnies the size of real rabbits lurking on the stairs.
Emptying my mending basket by actually mending the stuff that is in there. I’m tired of the pile of clothes falling on me whenever I go into the sewing area. I want my sewing space to be a place of creativity and relaxation, not more stress.
Un-burying the house from the mountains of paperwork and files that we have accumulated over the years.
That's it until January. There's enough in those three things to keep me quite busy until then.
Oh, and try to post more often here. Need to do that, too. :)
