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Visit Merely
Players @
by David Ives
Directed by
Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, PhD
Starring: Wes Bartlett, Matt Hedges, Diane Huff,
Gjcarra Mattingly, Jeremy Scoggins and Randi Shamsabadi
September 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2006
8 p.m. at
Zazu $5 Cover
"Like sketches for some hilarious, celestially conceived revue. The writing is not only very funny, it has density of thought and precision of poetry ALL IN THE TIMING is by a master of fun. David Ives spins hilarity out of words." NY Times. "Theatre that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart. Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright A wondrous wordmaster." Time. "An original turn of mind is to be saluted in our tired theatre A playwright with ideas, his own ideas, in his head is relatively rare. Such a one is David Ives." NY Magazine.
Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award. This critically-acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun.
SURE THING is a classic of contemporary comedy: 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.
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.
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.
THE OWENSBORO presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "an Owensboro," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants. (Originally produced as THE PHILADELPHIA. Revised by special arrangement with David Ives.)
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