Abandoned and forgotten
A notebook? – In the box.
Half eaten box of candy? – In the box.
Expensive fountain pen. – In the box
Umbrella, after umbrella, after umbrella. – In the box.
The items abandoned at the end of an board. Participants anxious to catch their flights and perhaps a little forgetful about what they brought.
All these items go in the box, unremembered until something goes wrong and story needs to be created.
An investigating attorney, Gilbert Meggs, starts sorting through the remains of a failed board meeting with Lyndy Zoost, the senior staff to the board.
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Not About Kittens Sometimes you talk about Kittens. They’re cute. They’re silly. They’re endlessly diverting. Much more entertaining than cats So sometimes you talk about kittens when you should be talking about the cats in the room A short about our new production ”Pinky and Beta” Cast: Beta: Ana DeLoret Pinky: Daniele Bertolucci
A short from our new show “Pinky and Beta Read Roberts Rules of Order.” Technically, it is a short from “behind the show.” We’re using shorts to develop the characters, to explore how they operate in a different environment. Pinky and Beta are the comic relief of the new show. The expected characters who behave in unexpected ways. They love meetings, especially board meetings, because of the social possibilities they offer. Except maybe not this time. A short from the world of our production “Pinky and Beta” Cast: Wow: Zoe Anastassiou Flutter: Kota Fudauchi
Life is a Dream. It is a show about reality and consciousness, about how much we can trust our senses, about authority and domination, about loyalty and strength. It is a disaster waiting to happen, a hero’s quest, and a love story (that ends in an unusual way). In its original version, it is also a 17th century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca(1600-1681) That play is grounded in the context of the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the 30 Years War, the Spanish Bourbons and and many other ideas that stand distant to our time. So we adapted it. Moved it to modern Ireland. Changed the castle to a high-tech startup. Reversed the migration so that it moved from Poland to Western Europe rather than the other way around. Turned the tortuous prison into a drug regime. But we kept the love story just as it was written. Mostly. And the initial scene in the pouring rain. It’s set in Ireland, afterall. So here is Calderón’s metaphysical insight filtered through modern eyes. We suspect he would be appalled. But he might have seen things differently if he had been born at the start of the 21st century rather than a half-millennia before. What is life? ’Tis but a madness. What is life? A mere illusion, Fleeting pleasure, fond delusion, Short-lived joy, that ends in sadness, Whose most constant substance seems But the dream of other dreams. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Second world war. Battle of the Bulge. Allied Troops pushed back by Germany’s last desperate offensive. Iin this environment, a group of daring entertainers travelled to the front to support the morale of tired soldiers. They went to places where the USO would not go. They often performed standing on the hood of a jeep. This story is told in the novel Jeep Show by Robert O’Connor. This is an excerpt from that book. Cast: Announcer: Michelle Thomas-Hanson Narrator: Ron Bianchi Adaptation and Sound Design: Hilbert Space
