ALL IN THE TIMING
Presented by Miami University Summer Scholars & Western College Alumnae Association
June 14-21
Oxford
Directed by Robert C. Stimmel
Cast: Emily Potten, Tyler Gau, Keith Arcuragi, Abigail Cady, Adam Davisson, David Bryant, Shelby Becker, Bradley Becker
About the Stories:
- In “SURE THING”, two people meet in a cafe and dodge their way through a conversational minefield as the sound of a bell interrupts their false starts and faux pas on the way to falling in love.
- “WORDS, WORDS, WORDS” recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: What would 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 hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love.
- “PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD” is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
- “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 of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants.
- “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.
FREE ADMISSION
- Fri, June 14 at 7pm
- Sat, June 15 at 2pm & 7pm
- Sun, June 16 at 7pm
- Fri, June 21 at 7pm
This performanc features four of the six acts as a special performance for the Western Alumnae, and is open to the public.
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