Queen or not...
Apr. 30th, 2018 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowangolightlyI'll know later today if I got the role of Elizabeth of York; pretty sure but not definite.
I had a call from the new ED when I was leaving Gaia after ritual and my heart skipped a beat. She'd also texted, "Can you chat?" to which I responded, "I can now." Soon after that, my phone rang.
She asked if I would be willing to play Katherine Parr's mother instead of the King's mother, due to Elizabeth of York having been deceased by about 40 years for the time we're playing. My heart sank. She said that it would matter to the way they're trying to play things this year...that it will matter to those who know the history. I countered with, "Well, considering that by the time he married Katherine Parr, he was pretty much bed-ridden due to his leg wound, I figured that would still work since he's obviously playing Henry as vital, healthy and much younger." I told her that all of my wonderful comedic bits I've worked out, such as "where do you THINK he got the red hair from" and "well, there was that late bed-wetting problem" simply wouldn't work and therefore, I would have no basis for any connection with the King; he would be free to hate his mother in law and ignore her. He would still love his mother and jab back and forth with her if that was their relationship. The queen's mother would be a nobody and frankly, I just don't want to do that; I want to come back as the former Queen of England. Yes, I will totally cop to that bit of ego.
I then asked her if Karen Troeh is still planning on playing Margeret, who is also deceased at this point but she didn't know as Karen was at Muskogee. I asked her if I didn't want to play the MIL, if that meant there wasn't a place for me in court. She said, "well no, because that's where I need you since your experience and knowledge is so valuable; I don't really have any other place for you." Which I decided to take as a positive, and not to just hear the last part.... I sort of gulped and said, "I still really want to play Elizabeth of York, that's really why I wanted to come back, to be able to play this King's Mother.
And then she said, "ok then, that's what I wanted to know" and I thanked her for calling me.
So I'm either in as Elizabeth of York....or I'm not cast at all. I'm really not sure how to call it. But I surely hope so. I stopped myself from quoting to her, "Renaissance festival is to History as Etch-i-sketch is to Art."
I had a call from the new ED when I was leaving Gaia after ritual and my heart skipped a beat. She'd also texted, "Can you chat?" to which I responded, "I can now." Soon after that, my phone rang.
She asked if I would be willing to play Katherine Parr's mother instead of the King's mother, due to Elizabeth of York having been deceased by about 40 years for the time we're playing. My heart sank. She said that it would matter to the way they're trying to play things this year...that it will matter to those who know the history. I countered with, "Well, considering that by the time he married Katherine Parr, he was pretty much bed-ridden due to his leg wound, I figured that would still work since he's obviously playing Henry as vital, healthy and much younger." I told her that all of my wonderful comedic bits I've worked out, such as "where do you THINK he got the red hair from" and "well, there was that late bed-wetting problem" simply wouldn't work and therefore, I would have no basis for any connection with the King; he would be free to hate his mother in law and ignore her. He would still love his mother and jab back and forth with her if that was their relationship. The queen's mother would be a nobody and frankly, I just don't want to do that; I want to come back as the former Queen of England. Yes, I will totally cop to that bit of ego.
I then asked her if Karen Troeh is still planning on playing Margeret, who is also deceased at this point but she didn't know as Karen was at Muskogee. I asked her if I didn't want to play the MIL, if that meant there wasn't a place for me in court. She said, "well no, because that's where I need you since your experience and knowledge is so valuable; I don't really have any other place for you." Which I decided to take as a positive, and not to just hear the last part.... I sort of gulped and said, "I still really want to play Elizabeth of York, that's really why I wanted to come back, to be able to play this King's Mother.
And then she said, "ok then, that's what I wanted to know" and I thanked her for calling me.
So I'm either in as Elizabeth of York....or I'm not cast at all. I'm really not sure how to call it. But I surely hope so. I stopped myself from quoting to her, "Renaissance festival is to History as Etch-i-sketch is to Art."