A Midsummer Night's Uberreiniger

[uberreiniger]

So as I was saying a couple of posts ago before drink and AIM'ing with nolens_volens got the better of me, the Shakespeare Banquet was Saturday night. This was a fundraiser for one of the local community theatres. What I feared would be a disaster actually turned out to be very nice. A group of players from the local Ren Fest put on Imporvisational sketches, there was a minstrel group, and a very strange middle-aged woman by the name of Queen Bee with an acoustic guitar, a window-shattering nails-on-chalkboard voice, and a mind quite clearly destroyed by a LOT of drugs done in the sixties, and last but not least, our little group putting on scenes from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." For those familiar with the play, I was Demetrius and my real-life former love-interest Lesley was Demetrius's stalker Helena. Now Lesley and I have a lot of trust and are very comfortable performing together, and that's good because since these scenes had to be fast and attention-grabbing (and performed more than once for each of the various rooms filled with diners,) we livened up our scenes with fight choreography that involved her bodily flinging herself upon me as she wailed about her love and me flinging her too and fro like a sack of potatoes in an effort to get rid of her. Later on, Demetrius falls under a spell and thinks he's in love with her and the situation gets reversed. There now exists video footage of me whacking Lesley soundly about the head and shoulders with her own shoe.

Remember the guy in the group who was all hot because he was convinced I was frenetically attempting to copulate with his girlfriend? Well, he was at it again. That was the drama of the evening. Apparently, I was "looking" at kali_81 (herein after refered to as Tahnee,) too often for his liking. Yes, that's right, looking. He had a fight with her because I was looking at her. His behaviour did not improve at the cast party, either. Especially when a party game got played in which I wound up having to kiss her. But that still did not stop the cast party from being a blast. We roasted jellybeans (yes, you read that correctly,) over a fire we built in Lesley and Dean's back yard, enjoyed free leftover wine from the banquet, and just generally acted like you'd expect a Shakespeare troupe unwinding after an exhausting show to act. In addition to the aforementioned kiss, I also bellydanced for Tahnee, (it was my first time. Boy do my hip-swivels need work!) kissed Kim - the leader of our group - with ice cream in my mouth, thus reviving her from death, then promptly killed her again with a slow-acting poison, performed a White! Hot! Fourth of July (substituting soy milk for semen, of course,) massaged Lesley's feet, recited love poetry to her in German, and received many insinuations from Tahnee that I should make Lesley my backdoor redhead, (alas, if only she was willing,) but the best part of all was being able to compose this run-on sentence.

So that was an evening with the bard. Much money was raised for the theatre and a few pounds may even have been sweated off of me. (I was in full garb and doing a LOT of physical stuff I don't normally do. I was soaked by night's end.) The only bad part of the night was that someone dinged my car's passenger side door and left a noticeable scuff. I don't know when or where it happened, all I know is it wasn't there when I got up Saturday morning, but was there when I got up on Sunday. (In case anyone's wondering, no I don't suspect Jealous Boy necessisarly. It looks like someone parked next to me and whacked it with their door.) The only blemish - literally - on an otherwise excellent night.

Comments

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

ah man. i SO want to see the shoe whacking footage when i come visit in a couple months.that had to have been great:D

gah. i hate idiot pricks like this guy who was too insecure because someone "looked" at his woman. You know, you could be flattered that other people know youre lady rocks and she's with you, but i guess its more fun to bicker about stupid shit that the poor girl had nothing to do with and no control over.(heh. yeah.. isnt it nice when you can just *STOP* people from looking at you ladies? wouldnt it be nice if you could somtimes?) that always keeps 'em comin' 'round. I've seen this a lot more with girls, but thats probably because i AM a girl. even if i'm not even looking at their guy, some little possessively insecure girl will be busy running between the two of us, trying to make sure i see that she's staring me down.. granted, its funny since i could so clearly break these girls in two with one arm, but still funny. insecure people are pretty pathetic.

way to go gettin some shakespearian action though, even if it was ice cream kissin. you should have done it the true KC way and been slathered in BBQ sauce.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you're totally viewing the shoe-whacking footage. Don't let us forget to show you!

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

everyone needs footage floating around in which they are seen beating a friend about the head with a shoe. we have footage of irateredhead beating me over the head with a set of keys. ah. memories

jealous boyfriends can be quite tiresome. apparently you should just know better than to let your eyeline travel in her general direction. I mean, really ;)

also. just how do you roast a jellybean??

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You stick two of them together on a marshmallow skewer, then hold them over the fire until they melt together into a single gelatinous globule. I have no idea how it tastes since I didn't eat any, but it certainly looked nifty...

...So how much would it cost to be allowed to view this key-beating footage? ;)

[buffygirl.livejournal.com]

boyfriend jealous much. I had an ex that used to be that extreme.

[kali-81.livejournal.com]

Dood, you bellydanced for Kim. I think I might be in therapy now had you had to do it for me. ;)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That's right, I guess it was for Kim. I think I was remembering your loud vocal protestations against it :)