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Posted: 7/05/04 at 1:50pm

Anyone have any experience with this play? Difficulty staging? Quirks?

Thanks

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Posted: 7/06/04 at 4:40am

I didn?t realise it was a play, other than the Lewis Carroll nonsensical poem, from ?Alice through the looking glass? or the ?Jabberwocky? movie by the ?Monty Python flying circus?!

So is it possible to explain, some of the stage requirements, of the play - ?DM??

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Posted: 7/06/04 at 9:41am

Jabberwocky is the critter and Jabberwock is a play .....Full title being Jabberwock: Imrobablilities Lived and Imagined by James Thurber In the Fictional City of Columbus Ohio by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. I have not yet gotten my hands on a script and there seems to be little information on the web.

The one stage design I have seen is quite elaborate with two staircases going up to a second floor where there are three bedrooms open and facing the audience. There seem to be 76 characters in the show and it appears to be a biographical sketch of Thurbers life just before WWI or WWII depending on which web site you read.

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Posted: 7/06/04 at 7:19pm

Mea Culpa ... Jabberwock is the critter, my beamish boy!

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Posted: 7/09/04 at 3:41am

Et Felix Culpa!

It?s been a very long while since; - I was a ?Beamish boy?? {I don?t think I was ever bright enough?]

Thanks any way DM!

I seem to be, thease days, more conspicuous?.than the invisible man! - Fortunately I?m still, on occasions, just an halation!

From what I can glean, by your description, it is the mythical creature as the mind of the author &/or his pipe dreams, realistically portrayed byon 2 different levels of rooms, in his imagination.

Unlike Monty Pythons Flying Circus, where it was a knight Errant quest, to slay the Jabberwocky!

Therefore the 2 levels, can be achieved by using door flats, on your stage for the rooms, as on the apron & the groundlings area in front, as a a seperate level. But not knowing this bods play? I?m only whistling in the wind - as usual!

Cookas DM

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Posted: 7/09/04 at 10:54pm

My high school did Jabberwock a year ago. Our set was very elaborate and challenging to build but it brought our ability to a higher level. It was the first two story set that our school has ever built but since then we have built multiple and plan to build more in the future. The script was not very challenging so it would be good for community theatre or other high school productions. I do reccomend it because it was a fun play to do

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Posted: 7/11/04 at 10:29am

Jessie... thanks for your response. I finally read the play yesterday and it is very funny and fairly clever... I do see some daunting production quirks which I will now move to the correct message thread to ask about LOL Shall we?

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DramaMama Player Joined: 5/01/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Topic: Jabberwock Posted: 7/05/04 at 1:50pm
	Anyone have any experience with this play? Difficulty staging? Quirks? Thanks
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Gaafa Celebrity Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181	Posted: 7/06/04 at 4:40am
	I didn?t realise it was a play, other than the Lewis Carroll nonsensical poem, from ?Alice through the looking glass? or the ?Jabberwocky? movie by the ?Monty Python flying circus?! So is it possible to explain, some of the stage requirements, of the play - ?DM?? Chookas
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DramaMama Player Joined: 5/01/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Posted: 7/06/04 at 9:41am
	Jabberwocky is the critter and Jabberwock is a play .....Full title being Jabberwock: Imrobablilities Lived and Imagined by James Thurber In the Fictional City of Columbus Ohio by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. I have not yet gotten my hands on a script and there seems to be little information on the web. The one stage design I have seen is quite elaborate with two staircases going up to a second floor where there are three bedrooms open and facing the audience. There seem to be 76 characters in the show and it appears to be a biographical sketch of Thurbers life just before WWI or WWII depending on which web site you read.
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DramaMama Player Joined: 5/01/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Posted: 7/06/04 at 7:19pm
	Mea Culpa ... Jabberwock is the critter, my beamish boy!
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Gaafa Celebrity Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181	Posted: 7/09/04 at 3:41am
	Et Felix Culpa! It?s been a very long while since; - I was a ?Beamish boy?? {I don?t think I was ever bright enough?] Thanks any way DM! I seem to be, thease days, more conspicuous?.than the invisible man! - Fortunately I?m still, on occasions, just an halation! From what I can glean, by your description, it is the mythical creature as the mind of the author &/or his pipe dreams, realistically portrayed byon 2 different levels of rooms, in his imagination. Unlike Monty Pythons Flying Circus, where it was a knight Errant quest, to slay the Jabberwocky! Therefore the 2 levels, can be achieved by using door flats, on your stage for the rooms, as on the apron & the groundlings area in front, as a a seperate level. But not knowing this bods play? I?m only whistling in the wind - as usual! Cookas DM
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Jessie Guest	Posted: 7/09/04 at 10:54pm
	My high school did Jabberwock a year ago. Our set was very elaborate and challenging to build but it brought our ability to a higher level. It was the first two story set that our school has ever built but since then we have built multiple and plan to build more in the future. The script was not very challenging so it would be good for community theatre or other high school productions. I do reccomend it because it was a fun play to do
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DramaMama Player Joined: 5/01/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Posted: 7/11/04 at 10:29am
	Jessie... thanks for your response. I finally read the play yesterday and it is very funny and fairly clever... I do see some daunting production quirks which I will now move to the correct message thread to ask about LOL Shall we?
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