July 14, 2005
A Light Night of Comedy
Ok, so I just spent my summer producing, directing, marketing, babysitting and acting in "A Light Night of Comedy". We did 4 short pieces by David Ives, Anton Chekhov, Neil Simon and Sam Shepard. We opened the show tonight. All of my teachers were there, so no pressure or anything. We got alot of applause and praise at the end of the show, but hey, who knows what the actor crowd is really thinking. They are professional liars you know.
Anyway, Shawn and I did a 10 minute play by David Ives called "Sure Thing".
The premise is this: A man and a woman meet in a coffee shop for the first time,
and throughout the course of their flirtation, they each say something the other doesn't like. Each time this happens, a bell rings, and they have to back up in time and start over again, saying basically the same thing, but each time a little different, until they finally fall in love.
David Ives is one sadistic bastard for writing such a play. I think he hates actors. This was the hardest thing I ever had to memorize. And it was only 10 minutes.