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It's All in the Timing

Time Flies.

SIX SHORT PLAYS BY DAVID IVES
A collection of thirteen witty and wildly original one-acts teeming with hilarious characters pondering life’s metaphysical questions.

Zany, smart, and utterly fresh, this collection brings together all the one-acts from the off-Broadway hits Mere Mortals and Lives of the Saints. The follow-up collection of the award-winning All in the Timing, Time Flies is magical, eccentric one-act comedy at its very best.
​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. 
“Ives [is] wizardly . . . magical and funny . . . a master of language. He uses words for their meanings, sounds and associations, spinning conceits of a sort I’ve not seen or heard before. He’s an original.”
​—Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“Hilarious . . . brilliantly calculated . . . The fragility of communication is pointed up with engaging skill . . . and the virtue of character.”
—Clive Barnes, The New York Post

“David Ives [is] perhaps the funniest writer of short plays in America today.”
--The Columbus Dispatch

“David Ives is the one. I cannot imagine a time when a dramatist delighted and surprised me more. . . . Cleverly accessible and humane . . . these postcards from the weirdo edge are a rare treat that only makes one wish for more.”
--The New York Observer
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“Delectable!”
--The Wall Street Journal
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CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
SURE THING
Directed by Adam Brazier
Betty: Melissa Kramer
Bill: Adam Brazier
VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY
​Directed by Mark Fraser
Trotsky: Graham Putnam
Mrs. Trotsky: Catherine O'Brien
Ramon: Fraser McCallum
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
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
Directed by Mark Fraser

Kafka: Lennie MacPherson
Milton: Fraser McCallum
Swift: Becca Griffin

Production Photos.

Photography by Rosie Shaw

SURE THING

VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

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​MERE MORTALS

THE PHILADELPHIA

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

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  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • THE TEAM
    • PWYC
    • Press
  • SHOWS
    • 2019 FESTIVAL >
      • 7 Stories
      • 'night, Mother '19
      • Mustard
    • 2018 FESTIVAL >
      • Time Flies
      • Lunchtime Leftovers
      • One Man, Two Guvnors
      • 'night, Mother
    • 2017 FESTIVAL >
      • In the Morning
      • Grace and Glorie
      • It's All in the Timing
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    • Calendar
    • Advance Tickets
    • Regular Tickets
  • Contact
    • Join Us