Day 7 Theatricals interest check & planning
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:55 pm
Theater show! Day 7! Let's go! (edit: Note also that because of the D5-6 compression, Day 7 is effectively only the 5th IC day.)
I, uh, made the assumption that other players might want to participate in this. It is now Imperially sanctioned and will take place in one of the Afternoon time slots on D7. I have a rough plan for making it work without hair-tearing.
Luckily, Noh plays are relatively simple to adapt for our use, with a small number of characters each (sometimes as few as 2 but can be more) and short plots that are not too complex, relying more on the audience's familiarity with myth and history rather than asking them to follow an intricate twisty story. They are also integrative, involving singing, dancing, and playing music in addition to acting-as-impersonation.
A typical performance could involve multiple shortish acts, i.e. separate plays thematically linked. Serious Noh acts would alternate with Kyogen acts, which are comedy/slapstick skits. (If you happen to have seen modern real-world Noh, you might be aware that it's performed v-e-r-y - s-l-o-w-l-y, but that wasn't the case in its early days, and I am going to assume it isn't in 5th-century Rokugan either.)
All that means, I think, it won't be too hard to make room for everyone who wants to take a turn in our show. We can put in as many or few acts as we need to account for how many people want to join (within reason). In theory, if people want to roleplay "rehearsal" scenes, they can do so with the smaller groups for each act rather than having to have a huge crowd scene.
IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE:
We can use this thread for general chat and discussion (please do), but I've also specifically created a google sheet where you can sign up if your character would like to be in the show! I've included options for the different elements of the performance so go ahead and indicate what your character might want to do or not do. If enough people are excited about comedy, we could have a kyogen act between the Noh acts!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
It is okay if your character doesn't have a giant dice pool. Having fun is the point. D7 will also be into session 2 so you'll have time to pop 1 XP into Acting or something if you want to!
After... a while, I'll figure out how many people we've got and pick a couple of classic plays to s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ creatively adapt. Open to suggestions. Fire away!
I, uh, made the assumption that other players might want to participate in this. It is now Imperially sanctioned and will take place in one of the Afternoon time slots on D7. I have a rough plan for making it work without hair-tearing.
Luckily, Noh plays are relatively simple to adapt for our use, with a small number of characters each (sometimes as few as 2 but can be more) and short plots that are not too complex, relying more on the audience's familiarity with myth and history rather than asking them to follow an intricate twisty story. They are also integrative, involving singing, dancing, and playing music in addition to acting-as-impersonation.
A typical performance could involve multiple shortish acts, i.e. separate plays thematically linked. Serious Noh acts would alternate with Kyogen acts, which are comedy/slapstick skits. (If you happen to have seen modern real-world Noh, you might be aware that it's performed v-e-r-y - s-l-o-w-l-y, but that wasn't the case in its early days, and I am going to assume it isn't in 5th-century Rokugan either.)
All that means, I think, it won't be too hard to make room for everyone who wants to take a turn in our show. We can put in as many or few acts as we need to account for how many people want to join (within reason). In theory, if people want to roleplay "rehearsal" scenes, they can do so with the smaller groups for each act rather than having to have a huge crowd scene.
IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE:
We can use this thread for general chat and discussion (please do), but I've also specifically created a google sheet where you can sign up if your character would like to be in the show! I've included options for the different elements of the performance so go ahead and indicate what your character might want to do or not do. If enough people are excited about comedy, we could have a kyogen act between the Noh acts!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
It is okay if your character doesn't have a giant dice pool. Having fun is the point. D7 will also be into session 2 so you'll have time to pop 1 XP into Acting or something if you want to!
After... a while, I'll figure out how many people we've got and pick a couple of classic plays to s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ creatively adapt. Open to suggestions. Fire away!
