TRIPLE PLAY: THREE
ONE-ACTS ABOUT
THEATRE
January/February 2009
YCP TheaterWorks will present TRIPLE PLAY: 3 ONE-ACT PLAYS ABOUT THEATER on January 23, 24, 31, February 7 at 8:00 PM and Sundays, February 1 & 8 at 2:00 PM at the VanCortlandtville School, Rt. 6, Mohegan Lake, NY, directly across from the Cortlandt Town Center shopping mall. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. For information call 914-528-4145 or go to www.YCPTW.org.
The three plays are THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE, STAGE DIRECTIONS and AUDIENCE. THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE, by Christopher Durang, is directed by Anne Rodgers Pearl with Peter Lillo, Carly Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Moritz, Heather Campbell, Joel Karpoff and Nick Byrne. In THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE, the question is, is this really happening to him or is it all just a bad dream? What would you do if you suddenly found yourself on a stage, in the middle of a play, and you had no idea how you got there? This is the absurd, yet funny, situation that young George Spelvin finds himself in one of Christopher Durang's most popular one-act plays, THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE.
STAGE DIRECTIONS, by Israel Horovitz, and directed by Sally Simon. Scott Faubel, Evelyn Voura and Hannah Freedman are a man and two women who meet after the death of their father. So much needs to be said, but they cannot bridge the gulf that separates them. Instead they can only speak in stage directions which are normally unheard by the audience. Nevertheless, as the play develops deeper truths are revealed that direct speech could only hint at. STAGE DIRECTIONS is a unique and thought provoking play.
AUDIENCE, by Michael Frayn, and directed by Karen Quinn-Panzer & Frank Panzer, poses the question, “What if all the action was happening in the audience instead of on the stage?” In this audience, there are mini-dramas, people sitting in the wrong seats, love at first sight, adulterous trysts, and one frustrated playwright who witnesses more dialogue around him -- while sitting in the audience. Will they at least laugh at the right lines? Come and see. AUDIENCE features Scott Faubel, Toni Fazio, Kurt Lauer, Karen Symington Muendell, Connie Dyckman, Elise Godfrey, Jim Petrillo, Joel Karpoff, Peter Lillo, Betty Slack, Mark Firestone, Carly Lichtenstein and Jan Dyckman.
