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Posted on: Apr. 29 2002,21:44 |
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>My question: How much do you charge for the medieval >clothes you make?
Depends on the person I'm making it for, what exactly they want and if they're buying the fabric as well as paying me for making it. Generally I stick to cloaks, skirts, shirts and dresses though because I've only successfully made two pairs of pants - they don't like me for some reason.
>My Question: Do you not bathe before a Renaissance fair or >event to get the real midevil smelly effect?
Depends on the faire. Some faires put us up in hotels for the weekend in which case I shower every day before faire. If we're camping on site I shower before going, but the second day most of the rennies have the scent down pretty well.
>Yeah, so basically you are going to sell pointy maiden hats >at the renaissance fair?
No, I'm a performer predominantly, sewing is merely a hobby for me. I act and I sing and I dance. Selling pointy hats would also be out of the period I specialize in.
My major relates more to my writing, my acting and my desire to become a dramaturg than renfaires, to be honest.
>My question: Can you kill someone at a Renaissance Fair if >it's a fair duel?
Not if you intend to kill them. Accidents do happen, but mostly people who are fighting are either choreographed or really good at pulling their shots and have LOTS of armor on. I do know one guy who only has one eye now thanks to a fell practice sword piercing his helm.
>Anyway, my question is this: How many of those pointy hats >do you own?
I own no pointy hats. I have one pirate hat (because I portray a pirate at faires) and a couple snoods. Pointy hats are not period and I'm not aristocracy even if they were period to when I portray. (on a side note, the pointy hats were to show off the bend in the lower back and make a maiden look pregnant because pregnancy made you look like the most beautiful of all maidens - the Virgin Mary)
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Posted on: May 02 2002,20:53 |
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Hey M, what is a dramaturg?
What does your unspellable name mean?
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Mhoraigh
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Posted on: May 02 2002,21:48 |
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Mhoraigh is pronounced Vori. It's the older Celtic spelling of the name Morag (which is the name of a friend of mine from when I lived in Scotland). Other than that it doesn't really mean anything. It's just a name I use at renfaires and a name that no one else seems to use online so I rarely have to deal with "sorry that handle is already in use, choose another".
As for dramaturgy - everyone has their own definition for this term, but basically the dramaturg is the person who knows the most about a production. They're researched the author's intent, the history of other productions of the play, the historical period in which the play takes place as well as the period in which is was written. They make sure the director remains loyal to the author's intentions and to the period they decide to set the piece in.
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Posted on: May 02 2002,21:58 |
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You got me there; I would've guessed your name would sound like "Moray" or "Moreg". Wow.
It must be interesting to be a Shakespeare dramaturg when they can't even agree who he was... (they were) heh.
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Mhoraigh
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Posted on: May 02 2002,23:48 |
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well...yeah...and whether he was homosexual or not...etc...etc
that's not really the part I look into, it's more of the "who was the real Macbeth historically and who was the author relating it to in his own time and who is the director trying to relate it to in this time" and that kinda thing
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Posted on: May 05 2002,19:54 |
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How will you ever know if you're right?
Ack!
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Mhoraigh
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Posted on: May 05 2002,21:27 |
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Well, considering no historian is unbiased, no matter how objective they claim/try to be - we never know if we're right about anything. I mean, you can get anything from history that you want to; if you come at it looking for something - you'll find it more likely than not.
My true favorite area of history is Celtic Civlizations - but the first thing I learned in that class was that we know nothing. Archeaology is an uncertain science - contemporary sources are biased - and later medieval tales are based off an oral tradition that changes as time goes by.
You never know if you're right or not (except with the writer's intent because sometimes they flat out write an article TELLING you their intent).
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Posted on: May 06 2002,00:52 |
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Ms "something", you might like to talk
to Chi Hsuan Men at puce.com.
He just got back from Ireland and Celtic study stuff.
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Mhoraigh
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Posted on: May 06 2002,06:56 |
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on a side note: my first year of university was in scotland..focusing on celtic studies...
I'll try to remember to stop by puce and talk to him..
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dyingdays.com - Jennifer
"Captain Loob he taught me all about the ocean
he taught me how to sail the briny sea
And though I've tried to live clean
To me what's a good life mean
I'm a pirate, that's all I'll ever be."
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