It's All in the TimingSIX SHORT PLAYS BY DAVID IVES
THE STORIES:
SURE THING. Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love. MERE MORTALS eavesdrops on a lunch hour as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past... namely that they are really the Lindbergh baby, the son of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette. THE PHILADELPHIA presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head. |
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
SURE THING
Directed by Adam Brazier Betty: Melissa Kramer Bill: Adam Brazier WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
Directed by Mark Fraser Kafka: Lennie MacPherson Milton: Fraser McCallum Swift: Becca Griffin THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Directed by Catherine O'Brien Don: Donnie Macphee Dawn: Becca Griffin Young Man: Adam Brazier MERE MORTALS
Directed by Adam Brazier Joe: Donnie Macphee Charlie: Lennie MacPherson Frank: Graham Putnam THE PHILADELPHIA
Directed by Marlane O'Brien Alan: Adam Brazier Mark: Graham Putnam Waitress: Melissa Kramer VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY
Directed by Mark Fraser Trotsky: Graham Putnam Mrs. Trotsky: Catherine O'Brien Ramon: Fraser McCallum |
