Okay so story time (I should really be working)
Yesterday at rehearsal someone had the glorious idea we should create mood boards for our roles
but like, with an actual stack of newspapers and flyers and paper and glue and whatnot, primary school level
Some highlights:
- I had no idea what to do for Iago so I put a greeting card on it that said “when I’m older I want to be O a princess O an astronaut O ______” And you could tick a box and I wrote “lieutenant” on the free space
- Brabantio had a picture of the pope in the middle of his moodboard with the words “Brabantio does the job, vote me” below
- Cassio put the quote “God I love alcoholics. I’d love to be one some day.” in the downmost corner explaining it to us with the words “He’s trying to conceal it but he’s so bad at it”
- there were some Hamilton quotes on Iago’s moodboard (and by some I mean a lot) including “desperate to rise above his station, everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation” and “why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?”
- Desdemona’s moodboard was made like an obituary and the title was “life is too short to be all black and white”
- guys really we were five adults spending hours with funny postcards and pinking shears it’s what Shakespeare would have wanted and some of the funniest people weren’t even there I can only imagine Emilia’s and Lodovico’s moodboard oh my god