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Just like the old days.

Maxwell

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Their words can't hurt me. Well, maybe just a little...

Wendy

A gift graciously bestowed to you by the Queen of the Constant, to enrich your sad, futile little lives. She was even kind enough to prepare costumes and a script!

-Scrapbook Description

The Stage is a naturally generating Structure in Don't Starve Together. It always spawns in a Set Piece consisting of tiles of Lush Carpet and Mosaic Flooring, with a Lectern and two Prickly Stagehands beside it. The Set Piece often spawns in Triple MacTusk biome, although it can also spawn elsewhere.

The Stage can be used to act out a few plays. The player can insert a Playbill into the Lectern to change the play. One of the plays is written by Charlie and serves as a metaphor of her life and how she came to rule over The Constant from the Nightmare Throne.

Players can interact with the Stage to begin the play, but they must have the correct Costumes and number of characters. Examining the Lectern shows the required characters for the next act.

If there isn't enough players to fulfill the needs for the entire cast, Mannequins wearing the costumes can substitute for them. Excess Mannequins are ignored, and they must be built on the Stage to count as performers: the Set Piece comes with a single Mannequin off-stage, which holds a complete Doll costume to start the players off.

Gramophone.png The Plays

When a play begins, Mocking Birds will appear, perching on top of the Stage to spectate and provide commentary, heckling the actors in the process. Shadow hands will possess the involved actors and have them act out the scenes. If the casting is incorrect or the script is interrupted, the performance fails, spawning 3-6 Briar Wolves and closing the Stage for 3 - 6 days.

Players can also perform a soliloquy if they are the sole actor, with unique soliloquies for both the characters in the play and the survivors themselves. There is also an epilogue scene featuring the Blacksmith and Queen.

Poor Performance

Bad costumes

Mocking Birds

  • "Something's wrong!",
  • "Check your costumes!",
  • "We'll come back.",
  • "When you get it right!",

Repeat costumes

Mocking Birds

  • "Are you kidding?"
  • "Am I seeing double?!"
  • "No understudies!"

No script

Mocking Birds

  • "Something's off."
  • "They're going off-script!"
  • "I didn't come for improv!"
  • "We're out."

Character Specific

Wilson soliloquy Wilson Filter.png

  • "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
  • "I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral"
  • "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters Mathematical"
  • "I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical"

Willow soliloquy Willow Filter.png

  • "Fire fire, burning bright,"
  • "In the forests of the night;"
  • "And in the mountains, and the plains,"
  • "And the towns, and the cities,"
  • "Everywhere! Burn it all down!! Hahaha!!"
  • "Yeah, pretty sure that's how that poem goes."

Wolfgang soliloquy Wolfgang Filter.png

  • "Wolfgang is not just man of big muscles,"
  • "Is man of mighty feelings too."
  • "Will read poem to you now:"
  • "Wolfgang likes his friends,"
  • "Though some are weird, make scary magic, and one is spider,"
  • "Will stay with them till very end,"
  • "Make Wolfgang's bad day brighter."

Wendy soliloquy Wendy Filter.png

  • "O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,"
  • "So haggard and so woe-begone?"
  • "The squirrel's granary is full,"
  • "And the harvest's done."
  • "I see a lily on thy brow,"
  • "With anguish moist and fever-dew,"
  • "And on thy cheeks a fading rose"
  • "Fast withereth too."

WX-78 soliloquy WX-78 Filter.png

  • "PERCEIVE ME, FLESHLINGS"
  • "YES. GOOD"
  • "I KNOW YOU MEATBAGS ARE WEAK-WILLED"
  • "SO AS YOUR OVERLORD"
  • "I HAVE DECIDED TO ENGAGE IN..."
  • "UGH..."
  • "\"MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING\""
  • "TO INSPIRE YOU TO BE MORE USEFUL TO ME"
  • "BUT SINCE YOU HAVE SAD LITTLE MEAT BRAINS"
  • "I AM KEEPING MY EXPECTATIONS LOW"
  • "IS THE INSPIRATION WORKING YET?"

Wickerbottom soliloquy Wickerbottom Filter.png

  • "Theater as an art form is practiced throughout the world."
  • "The Western tradition of theater can trace its origins back to ancient Athens;"
  • "the word "theater" of course coming from the Greek "theatron,""
  • "which itself was derived from the verb "theasthai," "to behold.""
  • "Isn't etymology delightful?"

Woodie soliloquy Woodie Filter.png

Woodie

  • "Er... I don't really like bein' the center of attention."

Lucy

  • "Let me try!",
  • "Chop chop chop, swing swing swing,"
  • "Choppin' is my favourite thing."
  • "Swing swing swing, chop chop chop,"
  • "Love it way too much to stop!"

Woodie

  • "You've sure got a way with words, Lucy."

Wes soliloquy Wes Filter.png (Only exists in game files)

  • "Essayez-vous comprendre mes pensées?"
  • "Ah, comme c'est gentil à vous!"
  • "Je suis flatté. :)"

Directly translated from french, it reads:

  • "Are you trying to understand my thoughts?"
  • "Ah, that's very kind of you!"
  • "I am flattered. :)"

Maxwell soliloquy Maxwell Filter.png

  • "Thank you very much, you are too kind."
  • "And now, I will pull shadows incarnate from this mysterious tome!"
  • Maxwell summons two temporary shadow minions that dance next to him before dissapearing for his next line.
  • "The show was better with... well, it was better before."

Webber soliloquy Webber Filter.png

  • "Ahem! We're going to say a poem now!"
  • "Little Miss Muffet she sat on her tuffet,"
  • "eating her curds and whey."
  • "Along came a spider who sat down beside her"
  • "And frightened Miss Muffet away!"

Webber with spider soliloquy Webber Filter.png

  • ""Will you walk into my parlour?""
  • "said a spider to a fly;"
  • "'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy."
  • "The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,"
  • "And I have many pretty things to shew when you are there."
  • ""Oh no, no!" said the little fly"
  • "to ask me is in vain"
  • "For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again."

Winona soliloquy Winona Filter.png

  • "There once was a gal from the sticks,"
  • "Who went out to look for her sis."
  • "But she found her too late,"
  • "And got yanked through a gate,"
  • "Ain't family drama the pits?"

Warly soliloquy Warly Filter.png

  • "Adieu, patrie!"
  • "L'onde est en furie."
  • "Adieu, patrie,"
  • "Azur!"
  • "Adieu, maison, treille au fruit mûr,"
  • "Adieu, les fleurs d'or du vieux mur!"

Wormwood soliloquy Wormwood Filter.png

  • "Hello friends!"
  • "Watching? Hmm..."
  • "Doo-doo-dee-doop"
  • "Woo-wah-wah!"
  • "Deedle-deedle-deedle-woo"
  • "Wah-wah-wheee!"
  • "Oop-doodle-doo"
  • "Bwa-waaaaaaaaaah!"

Walter soliloquy Walter Filter.png

  • "I've been teaching Woby lots of tricks, watch!"
  • "Okay Woby... stay!"
  • "Good girl!"
  • "We're uh... we're still working on the rest."
  • "Still pretty impressive though, right?"

Wurt soliloquy Wurt Filter.png

  • "Glurp... th-this is fairy story. Made by Wurt."
  • "Once upon time, there was super strong Mermfolk princess."
  • "Merm princess build houses for all her friends,"
  • "and make pretty decorations from bones of her enemies."
  • "Everyone live happily ever after, the end."

Wortox soliloquy Wortox Filter.png

  • "The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,"
  • "Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;"
  • "Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,"
  • "And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;"
  • "And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,"
  • "And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear"
  • "A merrier hour was never wasted there."

Wanda soliloquy Wanda Filter.png

  • ""You are old, Father William," the young man said",
  • ""And your hair has become very white;",
  • "And yet you incessantly stand on your head—",
  • "Do you think, at your age, it is right?"",
  • ""In my youth," Father William replied to his son,",
  • ""I feared it might injure the brain;",
  • "But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,",
  • "Why, I do it again and again."",

Placeholder.png Trivia

  • Wilson quotes the song "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.
  • Wanda quotes the poem "You Are Old, Father William" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Warly quotes "Le chant de ceux qui s'en vont sur mer" (or in English The Song of those Who Go On) by Victor Hugo, circa 1868.
  • Webber quotes the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet". If he is with a spider on stage, he will quote the poem "The Spider and the Fly" instead.
  • Wendy quotes La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats.
  • Willow quotes her own modified version of The Tyger by William Blake.
  • Wortox quotes A Midsummer Night's Dream, specifically Act 2 Scene 1.
  • Maxwell's commentary in the end of the Act 2 Scene 1 was "Is that really how she remembers it?".
  • Wigfrid sings instead of having a soliloquy, making her the only character with an in-game voiceline and the second character with a canonical voice after Charlie.
  • In a Refresh Rhymes With Play Dev Cast about "A Little Drama Update", May Wa came in with homemade Mocking Birds puppets. Later, she posted via Instagram instructions on how to create such puppets.
  • While standing on the stage, the player has a unique talking animation, gesturing about as they talk. This appears to be a feature of standing on the stage itself. While this is mostly shown during performances, it can also be seen while inspecting or typing a message in chat while standing upon the stage.

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