Well, I have FINALLY learned to spell "Shakespeare" without having to spell-check it to make sure I am doing it right (I used to write it "Shakespheare"). YAY FOR SHAKESPEARE CAMP!!!
So far, camp has been rather awesome, and I've only been there for two days. We are doing an hour of combat a day, which is a lot of fun and makes me very happy.
We also got our roles today. The way casting works in this camp is that each character (with a few exceptions) is played by a different person depending on the scene.
For example, I do the second half of the prologue in Scene One. In scene four, I play Juliet, but my Romeo was different from the Romeo in Scenes Two and Three. In Scene Five (since it's so long), Juliet and Romeo have several replacement actors.
The next time I go on, I'm Tybalt in Scene Nine (and I'm probably the second or third Tybalt at that point), and I get killed by Romeo (who is played by a different guy than the one who was Romeo when I was Juliet).
In Scene Ten, I'm the nurse, and I tell Juliet that Romeo killed Tybalt (therefore, I die, and then bemoan the fact that I'm dead).
My final character is in Scene 15 - I'm Lady Capulet, and I think Juliet is dead when she's really just taken a sleeping potion to knock herself out for a few days.
I'm most excited to play Tybalt - or, rather, I'm really excited to play Tybalt and engage in one of the most famous fight scenes in all of Shakespearean Literature.
And subsequently bemoan the fact that I died.
