Last night went to see a play called "Garden" in a downstairs theater called Theater 2. The play "House" was playing in the upstairs theater called Theater 3. The plays written by Sir Alan Ayckbourn the English playwright. What made the plays interesting was that both had the same people (artists and characters) and the actors/actresses were running up and down stairs as their parts required. Curtain call was one at a time as they ran from theater to theater. See "House" next Thursday. Funny comedy and I wish Br Cassian (Dee) would have been there as they was a French lady that spoke only French (funny how that works) throughout the play with very little translation other that body gestures/language.
I don't know if I told y'all that I saw a play "I Love You, Your Perfect, Now change" earlier this year 4 times and now have a total of "lost count" but over 15 and it plays in the Theater 2 space (50-100 seats) and guess what it is coming back again in 2009.
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Gosh...Love you...You can act in the play now that you have the script memorized. Or do you think you are seeing it for the first time knowing as I know that your birthday numbers are rising right along with all the rest of us.
I think I would enjoy seeing these two -- Ayckbourn is always good. It sounds like an interesting theatrical idea -- and the fact that this theater is actually having them run at the same time is especially intriguing. I wonder if all productions do that.
The only theater I get is the theater of guys living together. Today we are living through act 2 of "Br. G Has Quit Doing Laundry." I think there will be an important off-stage 1-act called "The Abbot Speaks to Br. G." And then we will most likely experience act 3, subtitled: "Br. G Offers Various Explanations and Apologies." This is probably similar to the kinds of plays that run in VA Hospitals and Pharmacies.
Of course, this play is running simultaneously with plenty of other mini- and maxi-dramas.
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