East-West Drama Department Presents: All in the Timing

December 14, 2012 - 2:17pm

East-West School of International Studies

Drama Department

proudly presents

All in the Timing

A programme of short comedies by

David Ives

Wednesday, December 19th

First seating at: 11:15 am

Second seating at: 12:45 pm

East-West School Auditorium

All in the Timing is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists' Play Service, Inc., New York.

Cast and Crew of All in the Timing

A Note from the Director:

It has been said that English-speakers around the world are peoples divided by a common language. Who among us, indeed, has not experienced the frustrations that come with trying to communicate with friends, families, loved ones or strangers who seem to speak the same language as you do but who, for whatever reason, just don't seem to get what in blazes you're trying to get across to them?

The comedies that you are about to hear and see are, I think, about language and communication and "subtext" -- what goes on under people's words - and I think, too, that they actually glory in the gulfs and chasms that exist between us. Perhaps too that these plays ask us, each in their own way and in their own imaginary worlds, through our smiles and laughter, to look at human communication in a different way.

But don't take my word for it. What do you think they're about?

-J.M. Krummel, New York, December of 2012

Here's how Dramatists' Play Service sums up the stories:

The Universal Language: A shy young woman named Dawn wants to learn the Unamunda language, and comes to see Don for lessons. Wild verbal pyrotechnics ensure. But to what end?

Leigh Singer as Dawn, Sky Johnson as Don

Words, Words, Words: An unseen scientist wants to prove the old philosophical saying that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later write Hamlet. What would the monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

Renard Scott as Swift, Jenna Choi as Milton, and Zobia Jamal as Kafka

Words, Words, Words

Renard Scott as Swift

Jenna Choi as Milton

Zobia Jamal as Kafka

Sure Thing: A man and a woman meet in a cafe and try to find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas, taking them back to the beginning again and again. And again. To what end?

Raven Waters as Betty, Michael Butler as Bill

"Do you come here often?"

The Philadelphia: A young man in a diner has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a parallel universe 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...

Tongue sandwich?