Buckingham hosted a tea party for three dead women. They all wore very silly outfits and all had a gay old time. Buckingham did all their voices. He didn't like one of them very much.
I fell off my chair. Literally. That funny. Need to get some outside eyes on that sequence because I may have lost objectivity.
It poses the question as to the duration of the penny arcade sequences for the show. These moments of comedy need to enliven the otherwise bleak landscape the characters dwell in. They need to retain the 'commercial break' feel they originally possessed. If these moments total a larger percentage than the 'real' narrative of the plague house then we may have a problem (or just a completely different show).
We went back to the preface today too, and the last weeks work has informed that opening moment. Buckingham has more to say and picks up the energy from the hesitant characters (hesitant for a good reason), which drives the moment to where it needs to go. I get the feeling it may repeat itself in the mid-show moment of a similar nature.
The other penny arcade we looked at was Plague in London, the original opening vignette. It and Pig Tit Farm are the two arcade sequences that will remain closest to their original forms, but far more choreographed. Today I even blocked with an eight count....
x nic
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