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Weekend America, May 24, 2008
Transcript
A little before 10 on Saturday morning, Doug Konziolkza starts his work day, walking towards the front gates of Scarborough Faire.
"We've been inside, but now I will have to talk very differently when I get out. I will have to talk like... thees" he says, assuming his persona. "And there will be people waiting to say hello to us. And we'll say 'hi' to the king and queen."
Doug will spend the weekend as Miguel Rodrigo Jesus Alfredo Esteban de Zaragosa, a 16th-century Spanish servant and campy buffoon.
"Hola! Buenos dias!" he says in a high-pitched voice to people outside. "You going to come see us? Excellent. 11 o'clock first show, I think at 3:30 I'm gonna become a woman, I'm not sure yet." People laugh -- they already know who Miguel is.
Scarborough Faire is set in 1533, during the reign of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. The king and queen stand between some turrets above the customers...
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Timing and Cues
Music from 4:50 + off mic comment "it's a bladivarius!" No SOC. Please back ID producer Julia Barton
Intro and Outro
INTRO:Summertime means festivals, and for an increasing number of us, a trip to the Ren Faire. That's F-A-I-R-E, where costumed actors re-enact a time of kings, queens, jousting, and stockades. Quite often, beer and roasted turkey legs can be found. Most renaissance faires started in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and many have featured the same traveling performers for decades. But what happens to "Rennies" as they age? Producer Julia Barton visited one Ren Faire in Texas to find out.
OUTRO:Producer Julia Barton at Scarborough Faire outside Dallas, Texas.
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