Theater on Cedar's Fall Production

This year I performed in Theater on Cedar's fall production: The Girl Who Cried Turnip and Other Folk Tales. We ended up having a smallish cast, so I had parts in 3 of the 4 short plays that comprised Turnip. I was part of the chorus in The Girl Who Cried Turnip, the Emperor in The Emperor's New clothes, and a person/villager in Why The Sky Is Far Away. It was fun and the show had a very successful run. I particularly enjoyed playing the emperor; what a delicious role! The naked fat suit was hilarious!

The emperor had an extensive wardrobe. "Clothes mean more than anything else in the world!"

The emperor processes through the streets, showing off his "new clothes," while the chamberlains (Lauren and Sebastian - who also played the rogue weavers AND were the co-directors for Emperor) hold the emperor's "train."

Lauren, Sebastian, and I as the Turnip Chorus (on left) and the Turnip Townspeople making "turnip a la sapien soup" - ha! (on right). Luckily, for the cute little turnip girl, that part was just a dream.

-Annie

DragonCon 2010

Dragon*Con bills itself as the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe. It takes place annually on Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. This year, Jeff and I attended our fourth con as Simon and River Tam from Firefly (Joss Whedon's short but well-lived scifi western tv show, which also had an adventure on the big screen as well). I delayed posting about this until photos taken by a photographer at the con were made available on the internet. He took a bunch of photos of Jeff and I, but unfortunately, only the photo from the Whedonverse costume contest was included (No, we didn't win - boo!). Anyhoo, some photos were taken on my camera, and Jeff's brother Bill took a picture of Jeff and I as we all played the Battlestar Galactica game in the gaming area. The BSG game was cool, but it took a long time to figure out how to play it, so we never finished. I can't even remember who turned out to be a cylon - was it the stranger who joined us...or maybe Dawn (Bill's wife). For some reason, I like thinking that it was Dawn.

The next photo is one of Jeff and I with some other con attendees in Firefly character costumes. I am striking the pose of my character from the movie promo posters. I am dressed as River from the final battle scene of the movie, in which she kicks a lot of Reever ass. I made my swords from paper, which turned out to be a really long and time intensive process that I wish I'd started much sooner than I did. They still turned out pretty decently. Jeff got his hair cut and styled just before the con to match that of Simon, who is a medical doctor on the show. We bought his medical bag on ebay.

I am pictured here with another River at the annual Whedonverse party, The Shindig. The party is named after an episode of Firefly, and a nice little folksy band performs some music from the show in addition to other offerings. BTW, the Rivers are being attacked from the left by one of those nasty Reevers.

I wonder who we'll go as next year...?

-Annie/River