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FAERIE QUEEN: Tam Lin I see has blossomed into a bonny young man, and I am a captivated
Queen Bee. |
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NYCPlaywrights reading - actors Nick Lowe and Alice Connorton, director Synge Maher |
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Assistant director Jon Campbell and director Synge Maher discuss staging in the Grand Theatre at the Producers Club |
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Synge fills in for the missing Tam Lin. Alice Connorton (left) is the Faerie Queen. |
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FAERIE QUEEN: Go and knock him off his horse and send him this way. |
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The elven knights threaten Tam Lin. |
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Tam Lin stands his ground |
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TAM LIN:
Excuse me, but... you know these... gentlemen? |
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Neil Van Kerkhove practices his swordsmanship. |
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FAERIE QUEEN: Come go with me now, you cannot disdain.
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The same scene, but this time Alice is off book and in costume. |
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TAM LIN: Yes my lady, I submit to your will. |
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Director Synge Maher (right) directs Skid Maher (her brother) and Karen Sweeney in a Sterling-Lady Roxbrugh scene. Jon Campbell looks on. |
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LADY ROXBRUGH: I've had enough of your silvery speeches, Sterling.
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MARGARET: When I was a lass all the ladies and their maids were enamored of the bonnie Lord Andrew.
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DUNBAR:They say he dwells by a rosebush at Carterhaugh, and if a maiden picks a rose from that
bush, up jumps young Tam Lin, demanding a gift.
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MARGARET: Is he not the very flower of Scottish knighthood? |
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DUNBAR: ...I do hereby annex the lands in and around Carterhaugh as a
security measure, and I give these lands over to the protection of Andrew,
Lord Aberdeen. |
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ABERDEEN:
Do you like the sound of that: "Lady Aberdeen"?
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JANET: Am I just a placeholder? Nothing more than the marriageable girl at Dunbar Castle? Why do they even bother to give us names? |
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An impromptu script conference - clockwise: Jon Campbell, Janice Mann, Erica Russo, Synge Maher. |
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LORD ABERDEEN:
This is my Murgatroyd of love!
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MARGARET:
Lord Aberdeen has been reading a book on the Swedish method of marriage.
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Assistant director Jon Campbell discusses script points with Erica Russo. |
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FAERIE QUEEN: You are the jewel of all my knights, I'll never let you leave me. And she who tries to take you will sore regret it keenly. |
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Erica Russo as Janet and Nick Lowe as Tam Lin |
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JANET: Where is this fearsome great ghoul with such a love of ladies apparel?
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Tam Lin demands payment for the rose that Janet has picked in Carterhaugh. |
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Janet tries to escape, but Tam Lin has learned a thing or two from the Faerie Queen. |
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TAM LIN: Withhold not your possessions or face carnal insistence. |
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JANET:
Are you yourself made of solid flesh?
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TAM LIN: Your touch has awakened my dream-clotted senses and I find myself in the tangible world once again. |
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MARGARET:
How I love those tales of his, of those mighty battles of the past.
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Aberdeen (Bruce Barton) takes the hand of "Janet" (actually Margaret, played by Janice Mann) in the dark. |
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TAM LIN: The Queen of the Faeries is my mistress and she is a jealous queen. If she finds you here your life, your very soul will be imperiled. |
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TAM LIN:
When I am in her presence, I can deny her nothing that she demands of me.
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The director likes what she sees, apparently. With Jamesai Schempp, Alice Connorton and Jon Campbell. |
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Nick and Erica listen to Synge's director's notes. |
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Neil Van Kerkhove amuses Mike Providence while waiting their cue. |
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MACDOUGAL: Do not dissemble to Elven folk.
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Sullivan, played by Mike Providence, joins in. |
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SULLIVAN: You have betrayed our Faerie Queen with a common mortal strumpet.
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LADY ROXBRUGH: The very brazenness of Dunbar is a tonic... He's so cocky you cannot help but laugh at it. |
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JANET: I have met Tam Lin this very night. |
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MARGARET: What will your father say? |
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ABERDEEN: But Janet, I thought that things were well between us. |
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ABERDEEN: Do you think the name Aberdeen means "traitor?"Skid Maher as Sterling, Janice Mann as Margaret and Bruce Barton as Aberdeen |
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DUNBAR: Well my lady, so your wailing and skirling about marrying Lord Aberdeen
was all a play show put on to fool your old dad, eh?
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JANET: But my love is celestial. He is shod in silver and gold, and rides a white horse that flies swifter than the wind. He is a creature of light and heat and his uncontestable beauty makes all the dazzling stars in the sky hide their shining faces in shame. |
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Janice and Erica wait for their cues. |
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ABERDEEN: Margaret, do not forsake me. |
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The kiss |
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JANET: The father of my baby is not a demon. |
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TAM LIN: What have I done to make you desire to cast me from my station? |
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Sullivan and Thompson fighting, as usual |
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Directing the elves |
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Director vs. actors |
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Janice Mann demonstrates a saucy side of her character. |
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Saving Tam Lin |
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Don't mess with the Queen of the Faeries |
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LADY ROXBRUGH: I have long waited to see Dunbar's ambitions trimmed back. |
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DUNBAR: I'm not ransoming a ghost!
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A Roxbrugh Reunion - Nick Lowe and Karen Sweeney. |
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Neil Van Kerkhove awaits his cue. |
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DUNBAR: But Aberdeen, don't you want a wife? |
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MARGARET: Yes, Andrew, my heart's desire. And I will dance with you
all night long.
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This scene is not in the script. |
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Nor this one... |
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DOUGLAS: You're not such a bad fellow - for a Froggie.
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MARGARET:
I would be an ungrateful lady if I did not recognize the part you played in my good fortune,
in spite of your heedless and headstrong methods.
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JANET:
I have enjoyed your wooing but once, and that is a million times less than satisfactory.
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The Faerie Queen (Alice Connorton) enjoys her Elven Knights MacDougal (Skid Maher), Thompson (Neil Van Kerkhove) and Sullivan (Mike Providence). |
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Jon Campbell and Synge Maher at work. |
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FAEIRIE QUEEN: MacDougal, how long has it been since I truly gazed upon you? |
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Portrait of the Faerie Queen with Elven Knights |
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