All In the Timing - Six One-Act Comedies by David Ives
SURE THING
A classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet inn a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as a bell interrupts their false starts, gaffs and faux pas on the way to falling in love. |
Directed by Laura Lynn Lavely Bill - Stephen Kenny Betty - Kelly Kennedy |
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
Recalls the philosophical adage that 3 monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet, and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? |
Directed by Regina Spain
Swift - Marisa Spain Kafka - Missy Campau Milton - Aven Campau |
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. |
Directed by Stephen Kenny Dawn - Michaela Venditti Don - Gino Fracassa |
PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD
A parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. |
Directed by Regina Spain
Musicality by Brian Spain and Aaron Rose Baker - Dallas Young Philip Glass - Bruce McFadden Woman 1 - Laura Lynn Lavely Woman 2 - Missy Campau |
THE PHILADELPHIA
A lady in a restaurant who falls into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which she cannot get anything she asks for. Her only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what she wants. |
Directed by Marisa Spain
Al - Sean Micheals Waitress - Sara Prapotnik Marcie - Kelly Kennedy |
VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY
The Russian revolutionary, Trotsky, on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountian climber's ax he's discovered in his head. |
Directed by Stephen Kenny
Trotsky - Jeffery Pedue Mrs. Trotsky - Regina Spain Ramon - Dave Nummer |