#david dirry-moir

[claireverlasting]

Shoutout to David Dirry-Moir, you have your virtues, you have your bullshiteries, and I hope you win all those duels

[southwarkfair]

excerpts from the sequel(s) to "vesti la guibba" that i will not finish

[ta-divchyna]

Praise the Grinning Man!

My TGM 2nd Anniversary

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

Once again thinking how The Grinning Man uses the theatre medium to drive home the main theme of acceptance and compassion, of helping our fellow human beings, by slowly, slowly building the idea of the entire theatre as a performance space - little jokes about theatre, fourth wall breaking, the use of language in the songs that call out the audience’s complicity in the suffering happening on stage, hecklers, Dirry-Moir interrupting the wedding from a balcony and having to move through everyone to get to the stage - until finally at the very end when Gwyn and Dea travel to their New World by literally stepping over the chairs it’s not even a question that the audience will help them, that they would reach out and move their things to make way, because why wouldn’t they? How could they do anything else, seeing what they have tonight?

[winter-wise]

Thinking about how The Man Who Laughs could be adapted to a ‘found footage’ style

I think an adaptation of this kind would be interesting given the way that written records are sometimes very significant to the plot, as well as the fact that what wasn’t written down wouldn’t be known to the makers of the ‘documentary’.

We start with a brief history of Lord Clancharlie’s role in the revolution, and his self-imposed exile in Geneva. The marriage certificate of Lord Clancharlie and Ann Bradshaw, then a discussion of how there were rumours that the couple had a son, but since the Clancharlie lands were given to Dirry-Moir, these rumours were thought to be false.

Then there are the papers for when Gwynplaine-then-Fermain was sold to the Comprachicos, and the order King James gave to have the Comprachicos driven out of England.

“After this point, it’s impossible to trace Fermain Clancharlie’s movements as a young, disfigured boy lost in the English countryside, until, years later, he reappeared using the name Gwynplaine...”

Details of Ursus, Dea, Gwynplaine, Homo, and the Green Box. A copy of their performance programme. If it’s modern adaptation, there could even be shaky camera footage of Gwynplaine performing, and interviews with those who worked at the fair (interesting since it’s book canon that Gwyn, Dea, and Ursus kept to themselves, so the other fair workers didn’t really know them). Perhaps some speculation as to the exact relationship between Gwyn and Dea - were they friends or lovers?

Records of Ursus being brought before the magistrates for practising medicine.

At this point, the documentary talks about Barkilphedro, Josiana, Dirry-Moir, and Queen Anne, leading towards the discovery of the confession in the bottle, and Hardquanonne’s arrest.

Details of Gwynplaine being escorted to the prison for Hardquanonne’s confession. (In the book there’s an actual record-taker present for this scene.)

All the various paperwork involving Gwynplaine’s ascention to lordship, etc.

Then we go back to the Green Box, and the fact that Barkilphedro gave Ursus the choice between arrest or exile. Arrest records for the innkeeper and his boy.

Then we get accounts of Gwynplaine’s speech to the lords and how it was received.

In the book, the Lords hand around a note, supposedly from Josiana, saying that it doesn’t matter if she has to marry Gwynplaine; she’ll just take Dirry-Moir as her lover. Some speculation as to whether the note really was from Josiana.

“After this point, Gwynplaine vanishes. He was last seen walking away from the Houses of Parliament...”

The letter Gwyn wrote saying that Dirry-Moir can have his lordship and titles is brought up, as this is the last record Gwynplaine leaves in history.

“It is notable that the place where the note was left was a walking distance from the jetty where Ursus and Dea were to set sail later that night. Ursus was later seen in the Netherlands, accompanied by Homo, but Gwynplaine and Dea were nowhere to be found. So... what happened to The Man Who Laughs?”

[waitformereprise]

Lord David Dirry-Moir | THE GRINNING MAN (2016)

[ratcarney]

the grinning man putting the “comic” in “tragicomic:” part three of three

[hexonxxon]

david being chaotic for 26 seconds straight