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LSPoorEeyorick 05-08-2008 12:57 PM

Reading party - 5/31 - All in the Timing
 
Hey, swankkittens.

By popular (CP) request, I've started a new thread for the Saturday, May 31 Dramatic Reading. I decided to go with something that goes down like candy for the first try, so as to get our feet wet. We'll work our way through the list, and all suggestions are welcome for later readings.

All in the Timing is a collection of humorous short plays by David Ives, an American playwright with a knack for words and absurdity. The book is available on Amazon.com for $10 right now. We don't know how many readers we'll have, so perhaps we can start by each reader picking one role (if there are more readers, we can split them, if there are less, we can double up.) Here are the short plays:

Sure Thing
Boy meets girl. Girl says something awkward. The "time machine" bell rings. Boy meets girl. Boy says something awkward. The "time machine" bell rings. Boy meets girl…
Roles:
Bill, late 20s
Betty, late 20s
The Bell, whose only line, literally, is "ding"
Stage directions

Words, Words, Words
Three chimpanzees attempt to type Hamlet.
Roles:
Milton, a realistic chimp
Swift, a rebel chimp
Kafka, a dreamer chimp
Stage directions

The Universal Language
A man convinces a woman to take lessons in his made-up language, Unamunda.
Roles:
Don
Dawn
Stage directions

English Made Simple
A college English professor explains the real meaning of casual party chatter
Roles:
Jack
Jill
Professor
Stage directions


Foreplay, or the Art of the Fugue

Chuck, a lothario, takes his date mini-golfing. Ten years later, he takes another girl, and ten years after that, yet another… designed as a fugue, or "round."
Roles:
Chuck
Amy
Chuck II
Annie
Chuck III
Alma
Stage directions

The Philadelphia
A New Yorker discovers that his life is trapped in a phenomenon known as a "Philadelphia," where everything is unavailable and it's opposite day.
Roles:
The New Yorker
The Los Angeleno
The Waitress
Stage directions

Variations on the Death of Trotsky
Eight possible ways Trotsky might have shuffled off this mortal coil.
Roles:
Leon Trotsky,
Mrs. Trotsky
Ramon
Stage directions

Pick your poison!

Cadaverous Pallor 05-08-2008 01:03 PM

Yay! In, in, in. (Count me only once.)

Ummmm.....I'll play whatever people don't want to play....

innerSpaceman 05-08-2008 01:06 PM

Are we supposed to pick / flight over our roles in advance?



Will there or won't there be a casting couch??? :evil:

LSPoorEeyorick 05-08-2008 01:08 PM

My couch is always open for snuggling.

If there's a role you want (or, particularly, if you don't like cold reading and want to prepare in advance) please speak up now or forever hold your piece away from us.

BarTopDancer 05-08-2008 01:08 PM

I'm still in as an audience. Reading out loud is scary.

Ponine 05-08-2008 01:37 PM

omg, I so want in. But I dont know if I can swing that weekend.
Talk to me about this skype thing.

LSPoorEeyorick 05-08-2008 01:47 PM

We can TOTALLY skype people in - I believe as many as want to join (group chat thing.)

Gemini Cricket 05-08-2008 01:56 PM

I want to be Milton, the realistic chimp and the New Yorker.
I'm in.

Snowflake 05-08-2008 02:00 PM

I can be the bell :-)

Ghoulish Delight 05-08-2008 02:02 PM

The Rebel Chimp and the Angelino sound intriguing to me. Perhaps I can combine them into a Rebel Chimp Angelino.


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