lovely lines from ‘a midsummer night’s dream’~~🌙☁️☆

☆ ‘the moon methinks looks with a watery eye ; and when she weeps, weeps every little flower, lamenting some enforced chastity’

☆ ‘her silver visage in the watery glass, decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass’

☆ ‘I serve the fairy queen, to dew her orbs upon the green’

☆ ‘I must go seek some dewdrops here and hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear’

☆ ‘hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose’

☆ ‘yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell : it fell upon a little western flower, before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, and maidens call it love-in-idleness’

☆ ‘I know a bank where wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-rises and with eglantine’

☆ ‘night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, and yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger ; at whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, troop home to churchyards’

How to Take Blocking Notes

Creating a Blocking Script

To create a blocking script generally one starts with a single-sided script. This leaves the other side of the two-page spread for an image / drawing of the stage and set. This is something you may have to create yourself, however, check in with the set designer first and see if that have something created you can use. Once you’ve done that, you can print that on the opposite side of your script so that the left side has the blocking image and the right is the script. That way when you open to the script page you can also see that page’s blocking.

It is also important to create a blocking key for all of the notation used in the script. This helps establish a convention and makes your blocking notes readable to someone if someone needs use it. It should be put in the front of the binder or tab of the binder.

Marking Acts and Scenes

When blocking scenes often the director will jump between scenes so it’s important to mark out the scenes and acts. This is most commonly done with post-it flags on the side of the script. These allow for the easy finding of the scene being worked on.

Common Notation

There are many ways of quick notation commonly used blocking terms that many stage managers and directors use. These should be put in your blocking key. Here is a blocking key that shows many of the commonly used notations. Also, it helps to create a shorthand for each character. Usually, you use the first two letters of the characters name. If there are two characters with the same two first letters you can use first three or the first two consonants that make it obvious who it is. This should also be put in the key.

Ways of Taking Blocking Notes

There are many ways to take blocking notes and they tend to vary slightly between people. Ultimately it is about finding a system that works for you and using only that. Here are three fairly common ways.

1. One way to take notes is to use lines and arrows on a map of the stage. In this method, you write down the character notation and draw a line from that to the location they land in marking the new location with an X. Then you label the path with a number that corresponded to a number in the script at the line the action occurs. 

2. Another way is to use the numbers in the script, but then simply write out the action using blocking notation. This can be accompanied by small drawings if needed. This can be written in the script or on the opposite side.

Other Helpful Tips

Always write blocking in pencil. Blocking by it its very nature is going to change many times. Because of this, it’s important to only write in pencil.

If you are the stage manager and someone else, and ASM or PA, is taking blocking for you make sure that you give them a key so that you can read the blocking. This just helps keep everything uniform and usable by all.

You can and should rewrite blocking after a rehearsal if it is messy due to time crunch or something else. Never assume that you will be able to understand your chicken scratch the next day because chances are the next day you will not.

my dad just compared tom and jerry to romeo and juliet REALLY FATHER

is he wrong tho

Reblog if you ship Hamlet and Horatio.

yea boi

DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS

for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

edit: I’m sorry if it sounded like I’m blaming Europe. I’m not. It’s our own government’s fault (Bolsonaro merged the agriculture and environmental ministries when he was elected, for God’s sake) and I’m really sorry if I offended anyone, I was just angry. Please don’t let that be the only thing you take away from this post.

edit 2: a lot of people have been mad at me about the half sentence I made about Trump. I’m sorry for it not being clear enough, but I never intended to put the blame on him also. I merely used him as an exemple of a politician who does not do much for the environment in general. In fact, since Bolsonaro is constantly sucking up to him, he offered to help, wich I am very grateful for. Again, I ask of you to not let this be the only thing you take away from the post.

Update: GUYS FRANCE JUST CALLED FOR AN EMERGENCY G7 MEETING TO RESOLVE THIS. I’M SO GLAD!! Let’s hope they get together to like punch our president or something...

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

We’ll find you Amanda.

Hamlet

has anyone done a hamlet where hamlet wrests the cup from horatio and finishes off the last of the poisoned drink, and then horatio proceeds to lunge after him and try to kiss the poison from his mouth

oh god I was almost crying and then I thought

what if hamlet then stops horatio from kissing him because he’s scared that there would be a chance horatio could poison himself that way

so he like pushes horatio away and horatio just looks really hurt and hamlet feels awful about it but he won’t let horatio die

now I am crying

HAMLET JUST SHOVES HIS HAND OVER HIS MOUTH

HORATIO SOBS AND, DISTRAUGHT, KISSES HAMLET’S PALM BETWEEN THEM

and this time he isn’t chasing the poison at all, this time it’s all about final shows of affection because in 20 lines hamlet’s going to be dEAd

I HATE YOU

FUCK MAN

I was doing face painting for kids and this 5 year old boy wanted the comedy and tragedy masks, one on each cheek. I was like “that’s different but ok!” and did them. Then later I saw he had smudged one of them and I was like “oh no your comedy mask is all smudged!” and he said “that’s because everything is a tragedy” and i am still stressed out about this kid who knows far too much

Hamlet and Horatio. A comparison of two adaptations of Hamlet.

Some Tumblr Hamlets, feat. @lemonbrows, @lucid-crown, [David], @star-chart @stripedroseandsketchpads, @skidbit, @i-incarnadine, @cloudmelt @klaudiart, @frannipan, @windsweptlassie, @giulsdraws @spookysailsinthesunset, @foggypunk, @ham-and-beef, @chaoskid-deer

bb i’d actually die for you

I gotta say, y’all, it makes me feel connected on a spiritual level every time somebody reblogs a gifset of Aziraphale with some tag along the lines of “I didn’t expect to love him as much as I did but holy shit”  because seriously that is the biggest mood.

Like, I was expecting to love Crowley. He was my favorite character in the book, I knew David Tennant would be perfect for him (and he was, GOD he was fantastic), I was 100% solidly prepared for that.

I was not

at all

prepared

for this soft smiley motherfucking N E R D.

LOOK AT HIM.

HE’S SO PRECIOUS????

He’s so excited? About everything?? Food, books, wine, learning the gavotte, double-crossing Nazis, you name it. He’s like a literal ray of sunshine every time he’s on screen, which is partly because he’s an angel and they deliberately dress him in white, and partly because Michael Sheen cranks every single emotion up to 11 and makes sure we see every single bit of it. (And that is the best acting choice e v e r.)

Like good lord, no wonder Crowley loves him after knowing him all of 5 minutes. How could you not?!

Crowley: I’ve had this angel for less than an hour but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself. Literally everybody watching Good Omens: HARD SAME.

I just. Guys. Aziraphale. I can’t. I love him so much, and I’m so happy so many other people feel the same way.

I TOO WAS NOT AT ALL READY AND I TOO FELL FOR HIM IN .2 SECONDS

we all fell hard

My heart hurts because of all the arrows Cupit shot at me!