MAGNOLIA–“All in the Timing” by David Ives will be performed at 7 p.m. on December 2, 3 and 4 at Southern Arkansas University’s Harton Theatre. Ticket prices are $3 for students, faculty and staff and $5 for general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Ives’s collection of six one-acts is a comedic rollercoaster that explores the wildness of communication and strange daily coincidences in life. This is production is student directed by Matt Taylor, a senior theatre major of Magnolia.
“The journey is a fun one and full of so much diverse comedy that you never get bored with same old routine over and over again,” said Taylor. “Buckling over with laughter should be expected!”
“Sure Thing “is a look at Bill (Stephen Searles – Texarkana) and Betty (Lauren Rodriguez – Round Rock, Tx.) and the possibilities of a first meeting.
“Words, Words, Words” takes a gander with the hypothesis that if a monkey set at a typewriter for 1000 years it would eventually type “Hamlet,” featuring Brennan Beams of Magnolia, Sissy Martin of Mena,Ark., and Tyler Orsak of Magnolia.
What if someone could create a language that was a true melting-pot, in this verbal play with words? Well, Don (Prof. Lee Crouse – Magnolia) does just that. The shy Dawn (Anna Kolesnikova – Moscow, Russia) comes to learn Unamunda, the strange language, which she hopes will eliminate her stutter.
In “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread,” the audience goes on a journey into what could have been going on in the bizarre mind of composer Philip Glass (Searles) on a chance encounter with his ex (Lindsay Walters – Sheridan, Ark.,) in a bakery. Also features Brandon Gray of Magnolia and Rodriguez.
“Going inside anyone’s head can be an experience in itself but the journey through Philip Glass’s mind has been one of fun and intricate vocal timing. It’s an absolute blast from the past,” said Walters.
“The Philadelphia” deals with those days in life when it seems like no matter what you cannot get your way. Features William Kilgore of Queen City, Tx., Dedra Joiner of DeQueen, Ark., and JimCarlos Ocasio of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Russian leader Leon Trotsky (Crouse) led a revolution yet had strange fears and an even stranger death, with a mountain climber’s axe smashed into his head. How on Earth could this possibly happen? “Variations on the Death of Trotsky” surely can find at least a few hilarious possibilities with the help of his wife (Kolesnikova) and the gardner Ramon (Searles).
“It’s a fast paced comedy with witty lines, hilarious situations, and just down right chaos; that no one should pass up seeing!,” said Searles.
For more information, contact the SAU office of Theatre and Mass communications at (870) 235-4257.
