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March 4 to 12, 2005
Directed by: Penelope Johnson & Diane Gludovatz |
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Behind the Scenes
Producer/Co-director Penelope Johnson Co-Director Diane Gludovatz Stage Manager: Sheila Parsons Prompter: Joscelyne Hale Costumes: Marilyn Mathieson & Marj Irwin Makeup: Ann Culver & Trish Hampson Lights: David Gludovatz Sound Lindsay: Hainstock Properties: Jennifer Mapplebeck Set Artwork: Theresa Franklin Publicity: Articles Allan Mathieson Posters, Ads, Tickets, Programs: Tom Szalay Front of House: Donna Blize Concession Joy: Wilkinson |
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A selection of six plays were presented....
Sure Thing
The course of true love never did run smooth. But what if you got a second chance to avoid the mistakes? What if you got 38 chances? Would love then be a sure thing? Setting: a café. Betty: Sera Lean Bill: Jason Mynett Words, Words, Words
How long would it take three monkeys to type Hamlet? Not as long as you might think if those monkeys are Swift, Kafka and Milton. A play about fate and free will. Setting: a laboratory. Swift: Allan Mathieson Kafka: Cassandra Shkrabuik Milton: Garry Doll The Philadelphia
Ever had one of those days where no matter what you ask for you just can't get what you want? Relax! You're just in a strange state of mind called ... a Philadelphia. Setting: a restaurant. Waitress: Elsa Wiens Al: John Kwasnica Mark: Jason Mynett |
English Made Simple
English is a complex language, not just because of its grammar and spelling, but because we never say what we really mean. Let’s look at a typical English conversation ... with subtitles. Setting: a cocktail party. Loudspeaker: Lindsay Hainstock Jack: Ryan Petersen Jill: Cassandra Shkrabuik A Singular Kind of Guy
Ever wondered why it's so difficult to meet the love of your life? Maybe you've been looking in all the wrong places. Setting: a bar. Mitch: Kenn Draymon Foreplay...the art of the Fugue
Meet Chuck. He's on a date -- three dates actually. Time, Music and, well, Foreplay merge as Chuck pursues three women at three stages of his life. Setting: Lilliput Lane mini-golf course. Chuck I: Darin Graham Amy: Cassandra Shkrabuik Chuck II: Ryan Petersen Annie: Jen Jensen Chuck III: Jason Mynett Alma: Sera Lean |
David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.
Ives wrote his first play when he was nine. He attended a boys Catholic seminary. "We would-be priests were groomed for gravitas," he has said. At the end of the year the seniors could be a part of a school show called "The Senior Mock," in which the students satirized the teachers. Ives played the role of "the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team (while smoking)", and he wrote and performed a song. This school experience, along with seeing a production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, were two early events that inspired his interest in theatre.
Ives attended Northwestern University, majoring in English. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. He traveled to Germany, where he taught English. Ives graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts in 1984.
Ives' All in the Timing, an evening of six one-act plays, premiered at Primary Stages in 1993, moved to the larger John Houseman Theatre, and ran for 606 performances. In a review The New York Times said "there is indeed a real heart ... There is sustenance as well as pure entertainment." Critic Vincent Canby wrote, "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." It won the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for Playwriting, was included in Best Plays of 1993 — 1994, and in 1995 — 1996 was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare plays.
Ives wrote his first play when he was nine. He attended a boys Catholic seminary. "We would-be priests were groomed for gravitas," he has said. At the end of the year the seniors could be a part of a school show called "The Senior Mock," in which the students satirized the teachers. Ives played the role of "the chain-smoking English teacher who coached the track team (while smoking)", and he wrote and performed a song. This school experience, along with seeing a production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, were two early events that inspired his interest in theatre.
Ives attended Northwestern University, majoring in English. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. He traveled to Germany, where he taught English. Ives graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts in 1984.
Ives' All in the Timing, an evening of six one-act plays, premiered at Primary Stages in 1993, moved to the larger John Houseman Theatre, and ran for 606 performances. In a review The New York Times said "there is indeed a real heart ... There is sustenance as well as pure entertainment." Critic Vincent Canby wrote, "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." It won the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for Playwriting, was included in Best Plays of 1993 — 1994, and in 1995 — 1996 was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare plays.