(Note)
The actor portraying the scenes may be either male or female,
depending on who's available. They will likely be rezzed in just one outfit
(which will keep the lag sane), even if they impersonate other personaliities.
opening
BAREFOOT actor
approach from somewhere behind audience, mozy through audience greeting them,
while walking towards front "stage" area.
[Ham II.ii.420]
"hamlet"
You are welcome, masters - mistresses - welcome, all!
While walking, approach a particular audience member:
"HAMLET"
I am glad to see thee well.
Spin around, embracing everyone:
[INAnip09]
both
arms
up
conjure behest
"HAMLET"
Welcome, good friends!
Approach a bearded man (or just a man in the audience):
"HAMLET"
O old friend, why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee
last!
Comest thou to beard me at yonder shoe store?
Arrive at stage area, face and bow to owner of the store (who
is wearing chopines or sitting on a single giant chopine!): Chopine Aura.
"HAMLET"
What, my young lady and mistress? By'r Lady, your ladyship is
nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine!
Chopine Aura begins to clear her throat.
"HAMLET"
Pray God your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not
cracked within the ring...
[Cor II.iii.84]
Touch activate Voice
Coriolanus
Customary
Gifts. (Pre-recorded sound file associated with
Coriolanus statue.)
"CORIOLANUS"
Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your voice
that I may be consul, I have here the customary gifts.
"Hamlet" walks over to Coriolanus (Beatrice or a valiant
gift-giving figure)
"HAMLET"
Come, give us a taste of your quality.
Turns around to face audience, beckon them over, quickly
explains the statue is touch-for-free-gift. Clicks Coriolanus
Statue
Gift
Giver a few times (text chat displays free gift giver).
"HAMLET"
Touch thy statue, and ye shall be bequeathed... with
customary gifts!
Mozy about audience a bit, gathering them to statue gift
giver.
"HAMLET"
Come, come. Touch, and ye shall have!
Silence of some minutes, as audience members figure out this
interaction bit...
core dramatics
Meander back towards "centerstage", pensive, melancholy:
[Ham II.ii.295 shoe-ized]
"HAMLET"
I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my
shoes, forgone all custom of exercises. And indeed it goes so heavily with my
disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory.
Eliza
stigmata pose
"HAMLET"
Alas, I HAVE NO SHOES!
"HAMLET"
Oh...
INAnip
bend
down
pick
up left hand by a giant chopine.
"HAMLET"
What a piece of work is a chopine, / how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action
how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world,
the paragon of all shoes! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
Shoes delight not me - nor chopines neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
[INAnip]
Head
skywards
arched
neck arms spread: spin around (or just try eliza
stigmata again)
"hamLet"
The most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with marbled fire.
Fog
effect fills up the roof dome.
"HAMLET"
Why, it appeareth nothing to me than a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours.
Touch to activate Miranda
and
Prospero
Bootless
Attentive
"miranda"
You have often / Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd /
And left me to a / bootless inquisition, /
Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'
"prospero"
The hour's now come; / The very minute bids thee ope thine
ear; / Obey and be attentive.
[AC V.ii]
"Charmian"
Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say, / The gods
themselves do weep!
Touch to activate Richard
III
Much
Rain
Wears the Marble
[H4P3 III.ii]
"RICHARD III"
He plies her hard; and much rain
wears the marble.
Fog
fades.
[Ham II.ii.369]
"HAMLET"
Gentlemen - and lady's men - you are welcome to Chopine's!
Promotional
Stunt:
Rain
Gifts A rain of gift cards fall from the sky. (They
are buy original's, so audience folks can pick them up - with their hands!)
[Ham II.ii.370]
"HAMLET"
Your hands. Come then. The accessory of welcome is fashion
and ceremony.
Now wearing a pair of chopines. [which?]
Goes back to facing Chopine Aura:
"HAMLET"
Let me comply with you in this garb, allow you thy speech,
lest my extent to the audience, which I tell you must show fairly outwards,
should more appear like entertainment than yours.
Chopine Aura clears her throat again.
[Ham II.ii.420]
"HAMLET"
Now, we'll have a speech straight. Come, a passionate speech.
Bow with flourish, and Chopine Aura speaks:
Chopine aura speech
chopine
Greetings!
CHOPINE
Welcome to the Grand Opening of Chopine's - the culmination
of over four month's worth of grueling, nerve-wrecking work!
CHOPine
Though there have been times when I came close to just
trashing everything, I am happy to say that we have finally arrived at this day
- this heartwarming grand opening day of SL's first shoe store dedicated
exclusively to historically-high-platform shoes - Chopine's!
CHOPINE
Chopine's is the evolution of the historical shoes branch of
Wunderlich's - my historical clothing store, established in 2008. The store is
built as a shoe shrine, and its main dish is the chopine - a thick, yet tapered
platform shoe that has been around for hundreds of years - has been worn by
thousands of high ladies, in history - and even rendered immortal in a brief
reference by Hamlet (which you just heard in the Metaverse Shakespeare Company
private performance).
CHOPINE
[history and such on chopine etc]
CHOPine
Curiously, Chopine's is also of delight to women in Gorean
roleplay - though high-heels are discouraged in Gor, because chopines are
historical shoes actually worn by women in such settings.
CHOPINE
The store also features stilts and other modernizations of
the concept of the chopine.
CHOPine
[more chopine facts]
CHOPINE
I think you'd have as much fun wearing chopines as I had in
making and envisioning them. Welcome, once again, to my Grand Opening - for
those who missed the free gift cards rain, grab a freebie!
misc
[Well I.i.595] on endless freebies for all:
"King of france"
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, / And is
enough for all!