Ooooooh man. hS, this is amazing, and absolutely the best way I could have spent an off day! I thank you very kindly for that well-organized list of Dramatis Personae, as keeping that section open in a separate tab made it a lot easier to keep track of what PPC character was playing what stage role. (Though I did temporarily mix up Hild and Huinesoron. Darn M-names!) Making the PPC couples play couples within the play helped out immensely, too! I also love all the gratuitous gender-bending among the roles. (Okay, total tangent, but during the shutdown in 2020, the Globe Theater had uploaded a full recording of Hamlet to YouTube, which had seen genderblind casting. And the lady who played Hamlet was just so good, she has not left my brain since, even though the video was eventually taken down, and in fact, I can’t find any footage of the performance anywhere any more . . . but while it was up, I was pretty much playing it on my phone every time I needed to stop and do animal food bowls, and throughout my weekends. All this to say, genderbent casting good, I love to see it!)

Some other various things I loved:
-the inherent bizarreness of Henry Robinson telling Constance Sims, “Still yourself, boy!”
-the fact that, despite the cast being a who’s who of Arda representation in HQ, Galadriel (most Elven of all Elves) is played by an Earth human
-Ranger getting no page time for ~15 years, only to finally return . . . playing a tree prop . . .
-Tanfin never quite managing to shake off RPing as Sauron, and he and Henry pretty clearly planning out a finale to that “plot point” all along -Starwind not only being unable to resist stirring up potential tabloid fodder mid-rehearsal, but then going on to write both the pro and con articles about the rehearsal she participated in
-Enter Tree at a run.

And some copy-paste artifacts, I believe:
In the Dramatis Personae section, “Court of Doriath” has some bolding that doesn’t match the other titles.

The lines starting with, “‘Little’ again! nothing but ‘low’ and ‘little’!” are attributed to Nellas, but I think they’re Lúthien’s lines.

“I'd also note, my king, that that your true end”

The lines starting with “Truly, a second breakfast-time” are attributed to . . . Bottom?! How did he get into HQ!?

“What have right have we to gainsay such an act”

Thank you so much for writing this and sharing it with us, hS! It really is something special!

—doctorlit, by paved fountain or by rushy book

The Multiverse Monitor was good, as ever.

(I will admit I skimmed the play so I don't have much to say about it.)

Shakespeare and hS have outdone themselves here, they really have.

-Ls

The two conflicting reviews of DND are hilarious. Of course one of them would take issue with the liberal lore-bending in service of Shakespeare ;)

Still making my way through the script but goodness you've outdone yourself hS. So much applause.

Will the MM staff ever get things right, or stop their fights against windmills? No, and that's why we love them.