Scarborough could use your help

[Captain Teague]

Perhaps I misspeak myself being new to here and to Scarby.

But I am beyond some words as to this (and far too respectful to this or any open forum for certain words ).
I was fully feeling it was some worthless dane troll, I would not in a million years think it of any cast anywhere or anyplace. "Destruction" whether implied or real should always be restricted between cast members or it is FAR too easy to find willing informed participants beforehand, never to an unknowing patron of any sort of event. I would hope that the parties involved would be umm...."invited" to trouble themselves to go round and get the kid a new program all resigned with all the performers autographs and that mailed to him with one long apology. Fortunately he is somewhat older than I had envisioned him ( I had grade school in mind ), but that does not excuse such actions in the least.

And as for the "hands in the pants" issue...from the sound of it alone, that would by far be enough to get them tossed out of pretty much any BAR I hang at, on their.....ear. And I hang at a lot of biker bars. Let alone a public, family oriented venue that already has enough issues with stereotype and other implied "reps" from terribly misinformed danes. "What the Hades were they thinking?" does not come close to covering it.

And as the other reports of a different "gang" shoplifting, etc...those just need to go to jail, plain and simple. I despise thieves.

Just my personal opinion. Sorry if I stepped on toes.

[Merlin the Elder]

Lord Dragon, I saw nothing in your post that would be construed as stepping on toes. If they indeed were cast members, I should hope that they are new cast members that are still learning, and not any of the veterans. There are frequently crowds that a performer could get a bit "rowdier" with, but the trick is, you have to know the crowd, or know how to read the crowd before you launch into something that could get yourself coldcocked, and always remember: location, location, location!  There are stages where bawdy is expected.

The only bad mistake is one you don't learn from. A cast member pulling this stunt needs to be educated. Apologies should be given, admonishments provided, and the rule book edited for subsequent years. It that doesn't work, cram him into the cannon, and shoot him into the parking lot.

It seems, good Berit, that the ball may be back in your court.

[Stalkwell]

The ripping "bit" was repeated several times on both days and minutes after each bit "Emma Dare" would give a replacement program to the patron which the cast member had bought in advance for the bit.

IF this was a cast member (and it sounds like the faire and a few other people know EXACTLY who this was, actor or otherwise), that is culpability on the part of the faire.  If they were cast, I think the faire should make amends to the patron, and it should START with reimbursement for the autographs... say $50 per autograph?  Then for damage control, add a season pass.  And to make the parents more amenable to Scarby, deal with it so it doesn't happen again.  Ban the actors?  Maybe, but it may have been a newbie.  Ream the director (all the bits have to pass the director, don't they?), absolutely, if it was an approved bit.  If that had happened to me, I would start with security and end with Coy, as this young one and parents should have done.  You NEVER touch a patron's property.. PERIOD.

Stalk well...

[Berit]

Well Fae, we learned just moments ago to our sorrow, that it was indeed cast members at the Chess Match. They will be talked to so that they can understand where the bounds of good taste are. I apologize for mistakenly believing that it couldn't possibly be a cast member. Sometimes it is "your own kids" who are screwing up.  Sigh!

Berit of Miller

[Merlin the Elder]

Sorry that you have to deal with it, Berit. Good luck resolving everything...

[lys1022]

Well Fae, we learned just moments ago to our sorrow, that it was indeed cast members at the Chess Match. They will be talked to so that they can understand where the bounds of good taste are. I apologize for mistakenly believing that it couldn't possibly be a cast member. Sometimes it is "your own kids" who are screwing up.  Sigh!

Berit of Miller

I find that very startling and am pretty disappointed that it turned out to be a cast member.  Knowing the cast as a whole, I have no doubt that it will be taken care of quickly and thoroughly.  I hope that people do not let this one incident ruin their view of an otherwise extremely professional and talented performing company. 

[Merlin the Elder]

I doubt that any of us would make that generalization, Lys. But it would truly make sense to handle this quickly with the patron who was involved. Good news travels at a comfortable trot, but bad news travels at the speed of light.  A personal call from the man at the top might go a very long way to resolving the issue and placating the patron...and what's a FoF pass among friends?

I've spoken with Berit on a couple of occasions, and emailed him on others, and have always found him to be a genuine sort of chap, who cares a lot about Scarborough. I know this must be hard on him, and I feel for him.

[Hercules]

Tell whomever they are EXTREMELY lucky for their employer. If that had happened where I worked there would be no "talking to". They would have been escorted to the door and told to never return.

[ophelia murdoch]

This same thing (ripping of program) happened to my friend a few weeks ago. And to top it off, we're friends of faire, there pretty much everyday, and chess match is one of our regular stops. The incident ended up making her cry(we've both been going through emotional stuff anyway, but this just topped it off). I was there too when they ripped up the program last week. I felt really bad for the person and had hoped they wouldn't do that bit again after my friend. As for the cornstarch stuff- ew. That's way over the line.

[Tink]

um... I feel really stupid right about now, but I dont get the corn starch thing...  can someone explain it to me? 

[Merlin the Elder]

Don't feel bad, Tink. It's got me scratching my head, too...of course, in my case, it might be fleas...

[Captain Teague]

Well ummm...in the best Politically correct way I can...

What ELSE might perhaps look like cornstarch and water and would result from a MALE putting his hands down his pants FRONT (vigorously ) ?

[Tink]

eeeewwwwwww

[Al-Nimer]

Well Fae, we learned just moments ago to our sorrow, that it was indeed cast members at the Chess Match. They will be talked to so that they can understand where the bounds of good taste are. I apologize for mistakenly believing that it couldn't possibly be a cast member. Sometimes it is "your own kids" who are screwing up.  Sigh!

Berit of Miller

I find that very startling and am pretty disappointed that it turned out to be a cast member.  Knowing the cast as a whole, I have no doubt that it will be taken care of quickly and thoroughly.  I hope that people do not let this one incident ruin their view of an otherwise extremely professional and talented performing company. 

I too, am surprised and saddened that this turned out to be SAPA cast.  The 4 or so times we've seen the chess match this year, I don't ever remember seeing behaviour this bad.  We always take our guests to see the match because it's always been a family friendly show.  Although this year the language from the pirates/privateers seemed a bit on the crude side, I don't remember anything worse than "trollop" being used to describe which section patrons were sitting in.  (After all, I do expect a certain degree of crudeness from pirates.)  Also, I never did witness destruction of a patron's program, but I agree with the others that have said this is going too far.

[Merlin the Elder]

Well ummm...in the best Politically correct way I can...

What ELSE might perhaps look like cornstarch and water and would result from a MALE putting his hands down his pants FRONT (vigorously ) ?

I can be somewhat crude myself in certain circumstances, places, and crowds, but that would have pushed even me over the edge. That's something that would work on Iris and Rose's stage, but nowhere else in the shire.