#sometimes I wanna go up there and strangle them all /hj

[multi-fandomdisaster]

Good lord, the Hatchetfield High School football student section is probably terrible-

[lyssified]

i wanna hear about the play actually! can u tell me about it? (like. everything/hj/silly)

yes yes I can indeed tell you about it :) :) I'm really normal about this play !! this is really fucking long by the way uh. definitely the longest post I have ever made

i explained the synopsis in an earlier ask so there's that, gonna put a cut because this might be long !

spoilers for wait until dark both the play and the movie

tw for mentions of violence, death by strangling, knives, heroin, and discussion of dead bodies from a costuming perspective

THERE WAS MEANT TO BE A CUT HERE BUT IT DELETED AND I CANT PUT IT BACK AHH

okay so this is mostly going to be about the characters and the costume designs we have so far. so we're in the second week meaning we've started analysis and characterizing through mood boards and seen the cast read through the full play (we <3 table read day) next week we do measurement day and then consultations with the actors and get the final mood boards approved by the director

basic plot summary a bit more expansive than the synopsis- harry roat, a con man (the main villain) is hired by a woman named lisa to steal a doll (full of diamonds, heroin in the original movie) back from a new york couple that has ended up with it by accident. roat enlists the help of carlino, a brawny ex-policeman, and mike, a kind ex-marine by drawing them to Sam (an ex-marine and photographer) and Suzy's (a fierce and strong blind woman) apartment where he has murdered Lisa and hung her in a closet while sam and suzy are away. roat blackmails mike and carlino by making them suspects in lisa's murder. mike's involvement with roat is not revealed to the audience until later. a recurring theme in the play is sam's desire to have Suzy be independent and not rely on Gloria or him to do things for her. as a result, she is extremely precise and independent.

suzy is visited by all three con men in quick succession while sam is away, and mike gains her trust under the guise that he worked with Sam in the Marines. however, the con men misjudge Suzy to be extremely dumb because of her blindness, and, with the help of her neighbor Gloria (a tomboyish 13 year old girl that helps with the groceries sometimes and has a pretty bad family life), she figures out the plot to steal back the doll and sends Gloria to get Sam and bring him back home. they find the doll and hide it in the icebox.

eventually, mike is murdered by roat as he frantically tries to explain to suzy that she is being tricked, and roat chases Suzy around the apartment in the dark (Suzy and Gloria have turned out all the lights and disabled the fuse box so only Suzy knows how to navigate the apartment) as he tries to find the doll, threatening her in increasingly horrifying ways and using a towel to keep the icebox open so he can use the light to see her. eventually, Suzy manages to stab him several times and lodge herself in a safe space behind the icebox to hide and wait for sam. when sam and gloria finally come home, they finds roat slowly bleeding out and Suzy trapped and exhausted behind the icebox, pinned in place. finally Suzy manages to get up to unplug the icebox. she does this by herself, without sam's help.

other really interesting things about this play 1. it's only 3 scenes- scene 1 is roat blackmailing carlino and mike, scene 2 is Sam leaving for work and Suzy meeting mike, carlino, and roat (also when we meet Gloria). act 2 is Suzy and Gloria figuring out the con and all the other stuff. 2. there are no set changes- it's entirely set in Sam and Suzy's apartment 3. the use of lighting is really good- the con men often use the apartment's venetian blinds to signal to each other, the main conflict not being what's inside the doll but rather if roat is able to overpower Suzy to get it, the entire last like 10 minutes of the play where roat and Suzy fight happening either entirely in the dark (the audience will be able to see vague shapes but not much else) or with the only light being a single beam from the icebox 4. we have to costume a fucking dead body??? and she has to be hung. so there's either gonna be a mannequin or some heathers movie fake hanging type shit with lack of air makeup. also there's a lot a lot a lot of knife wounds and bruises that will have to be quick changes. we have to have live matches onstage (the actors have to be able to strike them quickly) and real cigarettes that smoke (Suzy needs to be able to smell the smoke) and a working fridge and running water. roat throws a switchblade across the room and it sticks in the wall but the switchblade comes out of a tiny porcelain figure that he calls Geraldine. roat has to speak perfect italian. we have to have access to a shitton of 40s photography equipment for Sam??? so much is going on. 5. our actor for roast is FUCKING TERRIFYING. literally no hate ever for them because they proceeded to give one of the best performances I have ever seen at the READ THROUGH, I was pissing myself in sheer terror, and then I went and congratulated them after the table read and they spoke in their kinda broken English telling me how much they appreciated it and then shook my hand!! and said they were excited to work with me !!

now for me to talk about my babygirl Sam. there are a lot of babygirls in this play. from most to least babygirl: 1. Sam 2. Mike 3. Carlino 4. Suzy 5. Roat 6. Gloria think of Suzy as having 0 babygirl, Sam has 10 babygirl and Gloria has -10 babygirl. hope this makes sense.

anyway we're doing mood boards so here's the one that I worked on for Sam because I fucking love sam (he's such a small character that only one person works on him)

and his character description ^^

here's why sam hendrix should be your new babygirl. 1. he treats his wife right. they r so sweet to each other I could go on and on and on about how cute they are. they argue in a playful way. he encourages her to grow and fend for herself and this ends up saving her life. she helps with developing his photos. he takes her to the movies and describes them for her. they trust each other soso much and they love talking to each other and Gloria is their adopted child. I don't make the rules. 2. he's a photographer!! he does weddings ! and babies ! because he needs to photograph happy things after coming back from war. their first date was in the baby ward at the hospital :) 3. he's a fucking wet cat. his desk is disorganized as hell and he spends all his time in his darkroom. his kenergy is unmatched. he would do anything for his wife. he's smart and funny! he definitely has big sad brown eyes. he really likes interior design. he adopted the local feral cat (gloria) and they love eachother. he's my little wet cat I have adopted him.

yes I am babygirlifying him. yes I am projecting because we both like photography. no I will not be taking criticism.

anyway here's some other pictures from mood boards and shit

example set design from another professional theater ^

^^ preliminary ideas for suzy

^^ preliminary ideas for roat

^^ audrey Hepburn as suzy hendrix in the 1967 movie

^^ stock photo I found of MY BABYGIRL and his wife :)

^^ the casting calls for Suzy, roat, carlino, mike, and Gloria

so yeah !! this is what I've been spending all my free time thinking about!! if you can spot the picture of the 10th doctor on the Sam mood board I will give you a cookie (/j/verysilly)

this play is a work of genius by the way. highly recommend reading it.

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK JULIAN !!!!! /gen /vpos

[my-messy-melody]

Hopefully I won’t have to repeat myself anymore. Okay here it is!!!!!!!!!

So we hung out together. He gave me two calico critters which was so thoughtful of him. I took him to get sushi (because he had never tried it before) and that was good. We took a soy sauce shot, and it was funny. I also tried wasabi and ginger. I didn’t even feel that bad about eating in front of him. We decided on our team name- HJ.

After that, we went to Trader Joe’s and got raspberries, and a sugar plum drink. We went on a walk, and he made a joke about the girl that made my tummy hurt. He said that (in the context) he wished she had an onlyfans. And I saw pink hair at the top of his Snapchat. I felt like closing myself off- big time. I saw some other friends there too as a coincidence. We went back to my house, and watched Selena.

During the movie, he didn’t make any moves. He said he kind of forgot I was with him sometimes because he was so focused on the movie, BUT I picked up on a habit of his, which I will tell you later. We got up and danced at one point. I asked him how I would look with bangs, and I showed him my Pinterest. He probably thought I was cute at the romcom part.

We went upstairs, and he played piano. We did a pore strip because we were bored. And then-!! We got matching temporary tattoos. It was the yin yang. I got the white side and he got the black, which was secretly funny in my head because I think white is the masculine one and black is feminine. Anyway- when he put the tattoo on me, he held my hand. Remember that for later.

We laid on my bed and talked for a long time. I told him all about my sexual trauma with my first boyfriend, and I think his response was perfect. He went through the stages of grief in the span of 20 minutes, which was funny to watch, but probably unfortunate to experience. I told him all about the incel too. And the good thing is that he didn’t think I was specifically trying to sit by him at the party- he just thought I was trying to get away from the incel! It was perfect.

I asked him about his life, and he said his parents almost got divorced when they got in a big fight freshmen year. His dad apparently hits/hit them. Not good.

Here it is. At one point, he asked that if I was going to kill him right now, how would I do it. I said I would strangle him, and pretended to strangle him, but he grabbed my hands and kept pulling them away, but playfully, not in a youre-invading-my-boundaries way. And then he held them there. The tension was palpable. I tried to squeeze his thumb a little, but I was scared. I should have, but I didn’t. I wanna take it slow, and at that point, I still wasn’t sure how he felt about me.

But I drove him back, and I think I was feeling a real connection then. We hugged, and he promised he’d ask me to hang out next time. I love his hugs. They seem inevitable, and that’s the best part.

Today he messaged me and said that he was still wearing my necklace and bracelet. But here’s the thing- hours later, I get a video of him playing the piano. And he was still wearing the bracelet. He could have taken it off and put it somewhere, but he didn’t. He kept it on.

Anyway, I like him so much. I’m still getting used to him, but I think this will take time, and that’s okay. If he likes me, I hope he’s brave enough to show it.

Merry Christmas Eve! I love you all. And I love you butterfly.

Goodnight :)!