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 Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:02 pm
Every year, our director chooses two or three seniors to direct a one-act play that is performed at the very beginning of the second semester.
Obviously, I really want to be one of these seniors.
I'm leaning towards doing Noel Coward's Fallen Angels. It's not one of his more-done plays, like Blythe Spirit, but it's cute nonetheless. The premise is that two women have been married to their husbands for a number of years, and they're getting tired of it. They love their husbands, but they aren't in love anymore. Enter one dashin Frenchmen the two had an affair with before marriage and hijinks ensue.
For the most part, people choose really depressing plays. (I was in The Love of the Nightingale this year, and my boyfriend wants to do Bang, Bang You're Dead (bascially about high shool shooters)) So I want to do a comedy. It doesn't neccessarily have to be written as a one-act, I can be rather shrewd with my trusty Sharpie, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions?
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:26 am
My theatre program has an annual one-act festival where we do several different one acts, ad last year we did two plays by Lee Howard and Greg Gamble, one was Deliver is not, and the other was Tough to be Sombody. They're both HYSTARICAL and very well written. But a lot of the humor is in subtext and is subtle, so if you're preforming for air-head high school students, they might not fully appriciate them. Look them up though, it's worth it. XD
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:03 pm
Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound" is absolutely hilarious, but it might be a bit to long. It's only one act, but it runs for about 1 hour. I really tried to get it done my senior year, but the comedy went over too many people's heads (probably too much British humor for high school students), so I had to change plays last minute.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:11 pm
I do enjoy British Comedies, but so many of them have large casts. Love of the Nightingale had a cast of thirteen (as compared to two and four) I'd say that four to six is the right size for me.
And also, does Inspector Hound require the British accents to be amusing? Because Mrs. Hale really, really detests accents.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:26 pm
Denoument I do enjoy British Comedies, but so many of them have large casts. Love of the Nightingale had a cast of thirteen (as compared to two and four) I'd say that four to six is the right size for me. And also, does Inspector Hound require the British accents to be amusing? Because Mrs. Hale really, really detests accents. I didn't know she detests accents.... odd, I seem to remember Colin having a thick southern drawl in Metamorphoses XP Well, good to know.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:01 pm
We just did a funny one this last year. It's called "Hard Candy." It's about this company (you never really learn what the company DOES) but it's basically the boss is hiring a new employee. Then in the next scene, the person that was just hired is now the boss and it hiring someone new. It an endless cycle, and by the end, the secretary, who has had to sit there and watch as all the people move up the cooperate ladder ahead of her, is sick and tired. It's really cute, cus every person that comes in has a different personality or gimmick to them. The first guy is a college frat boy, the one girl can speak 21 languages, another guy is a total slacker, my favorite is the one girl that's totally crazy and tries to hypnosis the boss into hiring her. Here are some pictures from our production of it: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v471/AmbyLeigh/Hard Candy/And when we did it outside for Street Theatre: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v471/AmbyLeigh/Street Theatre 05/And no, there are no chinchillas in it. That was the costume designer’s pet that hung out with us in the dressing room.
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:44 am
We read Hard Candy in theatre 2, my sophomore year! I thought it was freaking hilarious! Of course, I remember that the playwright screwed up part of the girl who spoke all those languages. Like, when they were yelling in Chinese at each other, one of them yelled 'I can speak Chinese!' or something like that, only they used 'Chinese' as an adjective, like a Chinese person, instead of 'Chinese' as a noun, like the language.
Wow. And I should mention that I'm white. I really need a life.
That play actually completely slipped my mind. I'll have to re-read it and look at our cast for next year.
And for showcase in 10th grade, we did a play by the same guy called Check Please! It's really adorable, I reccomend you read it. It's a series of blind dates with really crazy people. I played the shoplifter, and the normal girl who dated the gay guy who was method-acting straight or something weird. It was so fun.
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