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All in the Timing N the Timing N the Timing ALL IIININ THE TIMING David Ives Playwright : David Ives was born in 1950 and is from South Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northwestern University and Yale School of Drama. Ives is currently living with his wife in New York. Director : Julianna Gibbins Performance date : May 28-31, 1997 Play : Six One-Act Comedies Sure Thing is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a café 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. 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. 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 ax he’s discovered in his head. 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? 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 the opposite of what he wants. David Ives." HarperCollinsPublishers . N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Feb. 2011. http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/20275/David_Ives/index.aspx?authorID=20275. .
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