EXETERRPG: (1 - 1504) Ensign Rylee Page/Claire Bradbury

[Jaclyn Smith]

Mission: Lights, Camera….Action?

Day: 1

Stardate: 2446.01.01/2025.06.30

(Toronto, Canada - Meridian Hall Theatre - Ensign Rylee Page/Claire
Bradbury - 1504)



Sitting in the dressing room, Claire knew she was early but also knew that
that night was press night. Press night’s were always the most nerve
wracking especially as the press loved nothing more than to tear into a
performer who had been on television and was now in a serious play.



This had always been a move that she had wanted to make, even before
getting the job on the new hot show, USS Exeter. Performing in front of an
audience was the high and the place she felt the happiest. If you had asked
her, Claire would not deny that she enjoyed playing Rylee. Especially since
the writers had given her the love story with Zot. But a part of her always
yearned for the stage.



So, whilst the show had been on hiatus, she had jumped at the chance to
perform on stage. A completely different kind of role from Rylee. A chance
to stretch her acting muscles and to show that she wasn’t a one trick pony
or just a pretty face. That was the thing that really worried her but she
also knew that this part and this performance would certainly change some
opinions.



She knew from some of the fan groups on the internet, that people were
surprised with the casting of her in this play and that made her more
driven to prove them wrong and to kill it every night. Even though she knew
her lines back to front, Claire pulled the script from her bag and began to
read outloud,



“Spoke or silent, a promise is surely made. And she may dote on it now---I
am sure she does—and thinks to kill me, then to take my place. It is her
dearest hope, John, I know it. There be a thousand names, why does she call
mine? There be a certain danger in calling such a name---I am no Goody Good
that sleeps in ditches, nor Osburn drunk and half-witted. She’s dare not
call out such a farmer’s wife but there be monstrous profit in it. She
thinks to take my place, John. John, have you ever shown her somewhat of
contempt? She cannot pass you in the church but you will blush...and I
think she sees another meaning in that blush. I think you be somewhat
ashamed, for I am there, and she so close. Go and tell her she’s a whore.
Whatever promise she may sense break it John!! Break it!!!!!”



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