LONG editorial on faire performances, from AFR

A reply to a post by PyrateLady in AFR, on performances at the renfaire, and the seeming lack of "variety" of some acts compared to others. In a sense, sections of this also give my opinions on the older history/reenactment vs. "fun" discussion that I was avoiding last month.

In it are my thoughts on "well-rehearsed" acts (not a bad thing), the nature of experienced fairegoers as audience members verses the once-a-year bulk of the faires paying audience, why the "well-rehearsed" acts have such large audiences, the use of anachronisms, the job of performers in the faire environment, and the use of sexual innuendo-based humor.

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