Looking for a few adventurous gals

[bizzilizzit]

to be employees of the gentleman’s club during the Zoar, Ohio event – Sept. 15 and 16th. You need to be personable and at least 18 years old. Please PM me if you are interested in doing a different kind of civilian impression.
Elizabeth

[Frenchie]

... I'm so there!

Exiting with great alacrity, stage left...

[MissMaggie]

Sir,
If you want crazy, one of my teachers at school makes the St. Pauly girl costumes. Those skirts are reeeaaalllly short apparently and leave little to the imagination.

[sbl]

Dear Elizabeth,

About time. We are so behind the Wild West reenactors and the Europeans.

[MtVernon]

I don't know, but these days being behind the Europeans gives me great comfort.

[hanktrent]

About time. We are so behind the Wild West reenactors and the Europeans.

I know. The military reenactors have so many ways they can get a laugh out of spectators during battles, it's time for civilians to catch up. Syphilis, poverty and alcoholism are so ROFLOL!

Seriously, Zoar is only a few hours up the interstate from me, and if this were a dedicated attempt to realistically interpret the lives of women who did that kind of work, it would be amazing living history and I'd like to go as a member of the public, just to see it. I'm a fan of controversial, cutting-edge historic interpretation. If it's just another Wild West/Renfaire thing, no thanks.

I saw an excellent prostitute impression at a c/p/h event once, and she said the biggest problem she had was, the military reenactors expected her to smile and act friendly even if, supposedly, they wouldn't know her. So they didn't "get it." I was portraying her estranged father, so get your mind out of the gutter, my interaction with her was moot.

Since this is plopped in the midst of a mainstream event, I don't see how it could work without comic exaggeration, otherwise no one could even figure out what's going on. But I'd be curious to hear otherwise.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[Frenchie]

I was being completely facetious, no disrespect intended. In actual fact, I got the impression that this is meant to be a serious effort, something like the inn at Harper's Ferry where food and (non-alcoholic) drink are served along with the history of the town's civilians.

If any of the ladies are upset, I apologize.

[bizzilizzit]

Ladies and Gentleman,
My gentlemen's club is as realistic as any battle, with the exception of Pickett's Charge at Gburg at the 135th. At Zoar, I have the unusual pleasure of using one of the homes on the main street by the generosity of its inhabitant. Education regarding women's issues is not something I take, or portray, lightly. Mainstream or Progressive, I strive to inform the public, as well as reenactors, about the every day lives of women struggling to make ends meet, a fact most overlook or ignore. I have rules I expect my girls to follow. Areas are set up for the curious to examine articles and read. I have thirteen years plus of research under my corset. This is not a horse and pony circus show.
Elizabeth Topping

[hanktrent]

Education regarding women's issues is not something I take, or portray, lightly. Mainstream or Progressive, I strive to inform the public, as well as reenactors, about the every day lives of women struggling to make ends meet, a fact most overlook or ignore.

That's great to hear. I'd like to stop up there as a spectator and see what y'all are doing. Interpretation of the lower/underprivileged classes has always been an interest of mine. Would Saturday afternoon be a good time to see y'all?

Here behind the scenes on the internet, I'd be curious how you deal with the problem of reenactors and the public taking it as a joke, the issue of it being so subtle it's not recognized or worse yet assumed to be real, how you integrate living history with static interpretation (girls realistically soliciting in character vs. talking about how prostitutes would have lived), etc. I don't mean to hijack this thread! If you don't want to discuss the interpretive aspects here, we can start another.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[sbl]

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Adah Isaacs Menken as Mazeppa

Now Menken would make a good person for someone to do an impression of.

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"Education regarding women's issues is not something I take, or portray, lightly."

Elizabeth, Good luck with this event. Take photos.