In A World... Where We Had Five Shows in One Weekend!
Week Five took place in a world where we actually had FIVE (yes, five)
different worlds! Between our regularly scheduled shows, and the San
Francisco Theater Festival, we explored two extra worlds this last week!
Thursday, 8/5: In A World... Where the Disney Villains Always Win
It's a world with Match.com, CraigsList, and adorable woodland creatures
that follow innocent peasant girls around until they are beaten down by
the Prince she loves and baked into a pie. The typical Disney ladies
(whose mothers are all dead, of course) start off in the typical Disney
situations (Princess not in love with the Prince she wants to marry,
Peasant in love with a Prince betrothed to someone else), but wind up in
quite unexpected places in a world where cartoon evil reigns supreme.
Friday, 8/6: In A World... Where Everyone Sings When They're Lying
Sing for your supper, and you'll likely get a plate of food in your
face. When everyone's fibs are made fortissimo, people come up with
some creative ways to avoid obviously lying to each other. Whether it's
husbands and wives, teachers and students, or priests and parishioners,
everyone tells a white lie now and then... only in this world, every
white lie has a melody.
Saturday, 8/7: In A World... Where Everyone Has an Evil Twin
When you're born knowing you have a twin, and that twin is evil, you
have a choice to make. Work with them, or spend your life avoiding
their mischief. Or are those the only options? How do you deal with a
spouse who switches places with his evil twin so he can have an affair?
And what happens when the evil twin realizes he's happy in the life he's
made in the mean time. Good and Evil blurred and changed as we explored
a world where even the President's evil twin got some time in the Oval
Office.
Sunday, 8/8: In A World... Where Everyone Expresses Their Anger Through
Interpretive Dance (at the SF Theater Festival's Rock Circle Stage)
MUNI Schedules, Playground Bullying and BP's Oil Spill all raised the
ire of the denizens of this world. When anger becomes artistic
expression, even the most mundane irritations will have people dancing
in the streets.
Sunday, 8/8: In A World... Where Everyone Can Read People's Emotions by
the Color of Their Aura (at the SF THeater Festival's East Garden Stage)
How difficult is it to be color blind in a world where people literally
wear their emotions on their sleeves (and around the rest of their
bodies, too)? If Magenta, Fuchsia, Garnet, Ruby, Scarlet and Vermilion
are all just "Red" to you, how do you accurately judge your wife's
emotional state? And what about those little blue pills that help you
stay Green when it really counts? This world provided us with a wealth
of colorful situations to explore.
This week's cast:
Thursday: Dave, Larissa, Alex, Paul, Melissa
Friday: Christian, Trish, Mandy, Paul, Melissa
Saturday: Clay, Alex, Trish, Mandy, Larissa
