Feeling: flippant
Listening to: Erin McKeown - Monday Morning Cold
Reading/Watching: philosophy

Back in tech rehearsals, the cast was tense and wired tonight, flubbing simple lines and completely forgetting entrances.

Mini-Me and I attempted to lighten the mood by making one of those folded-paper games that tells fortunes (you know the little hand thing that looks like a mouth? aaagh, I can't describe it). I never could learn to fold one properly all through elementary and middle school, but Mini-Me showed me how, and then we wrote the names of all the Othello characters on the tabs, and alternate plots for them on the inside.

That way, anyone can team their role up with anyone else in the story, and give the couple a different ending.

-This way, Desdemona and Roderigo run away to Barbados and live on pineapple and coconuts.
-Bianca ditches Cassio at a bus station and goes to join a traveling circus.
-Montano and Gratiano move to Montreal and start an emu farm to support their six children (don't ask me where they came from).
-Othello and Desdemona take a ship to the New World, but a seagull eats moldy hardtack and, in the throes of bird-death, knocks Othello overboard.
-Brabantio and Lodovico get matching tattoos and join a biker gang in Hungary.
-Iago and Roderigo are abducted by the Persian mafia and taught to be deadly assassins by wielding flying fish.
-Desdemona and Emilia buy passage to China and become geisha girls until they can afford a soybean farm of their very own.
-Iago and Emilia run away together, but Emilia smothers him in a hammock, and cuts off his hair to use for pillow stuffing.

Since the majority are inside jokes, I don't expect anyone else to find them funny; I just wanted to remember them. They never failed to make somebody laugh when I would read them backstage, and that's what we needed.

Now pardon me, I have hammocks, geishas, and soybeans to tend to.

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