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All in the Timing: Six One-Act Comedies | |
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The JCC Uncommoners presented "All in the Timing: Six One-Act Comedies," by David Ives, on March 10, 11, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and March 19 at 2 p.m. in Scharmann Theatre. This critically acclaimed, award-winning collection of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire, and fun. "The writing is not only very funny, it is theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart," notes Bob Schlick, JCC's theatre director. "Sure Thing," the first performance, is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on their way to falling in love. |
 Melissa Gullo and Joe Yanik in "Sure Thing" |
 Kirstin DeCinque about to have her "anda kootched" by Glenn Johnson in "The Universal Language" |
"Words, Words, Words" recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce "Hamlet," and asks: what would the monkeys talk about at their typewriters? "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 hilarious verbal pyrotechnics - and, of course, true love. The fourth comedy, "The Philadelphia," presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into a "Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out is to ask for the opposite of what he wants. |
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"Variations on the Death of Trotsky" showed the Russian revolutionary on the day ofhis demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain climber's ax he's discovered in his head. "Foreplay or: The Art of the Fugue" brings us Chuck, a would-be Don Juan, in three rounds of seduction with three different women on a miniature golf course. |   |
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