Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 02/08/2001 - 1:27am.
Archived comment by Eve:
Warning: long tangent ahead. (Hey, would threaded comments be cool?)
Matt -- Faire is a reference to Renaissance Faires. Though there certainly are other types like gold rush faire, dickens faire, viking faires (and for the longest time I thought Southern Faire was Civil War, but it's just So Cal,) renaissance is the most popular time period.
Anyway, they're usually held in parks or forests, and it's kind of like a time travel festival; for a day, you can live like they did in that time period. People dress in costume, there are guilds of actors paid to play parts from washerwomen to puritans to royalty, there are plays, dancing, jousting, etc.
Some people get _really_ into them, and wind up getting married there, or talking with their english accent in everyday life. I never got seriously into it (by my definition, which is owning your own bodice,) but I had friends who were actors there, and I liked to visit every year. Until, of course, they bulldozed the faire site, where a virgin oak forest and wetlands once were.
The mysterious "Black Point," is the beautiful location in Marin where it used to be, and where some condos and a golf course are now.
Not that I'm bitter. :-)
Speaking of fond faire memories though, has anyone else seen Sound and Fury's, "Testaclese and the Sack of Rome?" It's an "Fakesperian" tragedy, and quite possibly the funniest piece of theatre I have ever seen. Ever.
Warning: long tangent ahead.
(Hey, would threaded comments be cool?)
Matt -- Faire is a reference to Renaissance Faires. Though there certainly are other types like gold rush faire, dickens faire, viking faires (and for the longest time I thought Southern Faire was Civil War, but it's just So Cal,) renaissance is the most popular time period.
Anyway, they're usually held in parks or forests, and it's kind of like a time travel festival; for a day, you can live like they did in that time period. People dress in costume, there are guilds of actors paid to play parts from washerwomen to puritans to royalty, there are plays, dancing, jousting, etc.
Some people get _really_ into them, and wind up getting married there, or talking with their english accent in everyday life. I never got seriously into it (by my definition, which is owning your own bodice,) but I had friends who were actors there, and I liked to visit every year.
Until, of course, they bulldozed the faire site, where a virgin oak forest and wetlands once were.
The mysterious "Black Point," is the beautiful location in Marin where it used to be, and where some condos and a golf course are now.
Not that I'm bitter. :-)
Speaking of fond faire memories though, has anyone else seen Sound and Fury's, "Testaclese and the Sack of Rome?" It's an "Fakesperian" tragedy, and quite possibly the funniest piece of theatre I have ever seen. Ever.