coming next monday

LITTLE THEATRE: Vol VII, No. 5 - February 26, 2007

JUDGE MENTALS
a performance by Aki Sasamoto

BRIAN DEWAN
a musical performance

THE ENTREPRENEUR
a play by Adam Szymkowicz, with
Travis York, directed by Kip Fagan

PATRICK BORELLI
monologs and videos

THROUGH GLASS
a film by Kelly Stuart

Monday, February 26, 2007 - 8:00 PM @ Tonic

107 Norfolk btw. Delancey & Rivington (F Delancey; JMZ
Essex)
Tickets $8.00 @ the door, 1st come, 1st served, no
reservations

from New York Times--a student at Columbia Grad Sch Journalism

Every time I talked to someone at a party, in a taxi or at the store, the same chain of questions would follow after I said I was from Iraq. Some people gaped. Others sat silent for a second, then shook my hand differently. “Wow, so interesting,” they would say. “So what do you think of the whole situation? What went wrong over there?” Finally, the inevitable: “Do you think we should pull out?”

South Coast Rep was a Dream . . .and now I'm back and reality looks a lot like sleet.

We had the reading in here. It went well, i think.



So much sun. Such beautiful theatres. They do great shows there. And I can say they treat visiting artists very very well. the whole trip made me optimistic about theatre again.

And now I'm going to go outside and get sleeted on. But then I will go see the Juilliard kids and that will make me optimistic too even thought the literal sun is gone gone gone.

next

This week at Juilliard
INCENDIARY
Directed by Kip Fagan
Starring Jessica Love, Adam Driver, Stacey Scott, Sena
Rich, Alex Rodriguez, Sean Parker, Geoffrey Murphy
Wednesday, February 14th @1:30pm
Thursday, February 15th @ 7:00pm
Friday, February 16th @ 7:00pm
Saturday, February 17th @ 2:00pm
Sunday, February 18th @ 7:00pm

then

at Outsiders Inn Collective in Seattle
http://www.outsiders-inn.com/season_prettytheft.shtml
PRETTY THEFT
April 19-21 @ 8pm and April 22 @ 5:30pm
April 26-28 @ 8pm and April 29 @ 5:30 pm
at Studio-Current Seattle, Washington

then

at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles
http://www.theatreofnote.com/
FOOD FOR FISH
directed by Heather Holloway
April 27 - June 2.

I'm off

To sunny, warm Costa Mesa. See you again on Valentines Day, NYC.

or if you're in LA

see you here monday at 7:30

http://www.scr.org/season/06-07season/releases/newscriptrelease.html

http://www.scr.org/aboutSCR/directions.html

children need to know about vaginas

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=36594&in_page_id=2

next week--free--tell me now if you wish to go

Incendiary at Juilliard directed by Kip Fagan.

Wednesday, February 14th @1:30pm

Thursday, February 15th @ 7:00pm

Friday, February 16th @ 7:00pm

Saturday, February 17th @ 2:00pm

Sunday, February 18th @ 7:00pm

Incendiary is the comic tale of a combustible group of
people. Elise is a pyromaniac fire chief. Jake is the
police detective investigating her fires. Carrie is a
therapist who's trying to get a client to quit some
truly destructive behavior, and Gary is leading the
life of a somewhat ineffective corporate spy. As the
smoke begins to billow and the sparks begin to fly,
they're all about to find out that love is the most
incendiary thing.

beginning of my ten minute (?) one-person play, Entrepreneur

(TOM is sitting on a ratty recliner in his apartment.
He rises as he sees us.)

TOM
Hey, hi there. Come on in. Yeah. Hi. I'm Tom.
Does anyone want any cheese or anything? I got some
cheese. American cheese? You want some? There might
be some Triscuits too but I'm not sure how long they
been in there so… you might be taking a chance going
with those. Yeah, take off your coats. Right. So.
So, um I'm here to talk to you about how to pick up
chicks. Normally my friend Phil teaches this seminar
but he got some job doing some kind of consulting. He
can't talk about it but he asked me to fill in today.
Because, um, I'm currently unemployed. I had a job
though until recently . . . My former boss-- when I
used to say to someone, "yeah I work at the Electronic
Superstore" he would be like "No, don't say you work.
You are employed by the Electronic Superstore." He
was kind of an asshole.

Oh, um so maybe now would be a good time for you to
give me the money for the session. Yeah a check is
ok. Thomas Hond. H-O-N-D. Cool. Yeah just right,
leave it on the table there. Cool. Is everyone here?
Cool. So like I was saying: how to pick up chicks.
First of all are any of you rich? Let's say you're
rich, you should go out and buy real nice clothes and
have a real nice car and you should just carry around
a lot of money. Let's say you see a hot girl. You
just flash the wad. Like this. You just flash it and
you go "look. Hey look." And she sees your wad and
she will go for you then. Or if you want to be slick
you go "hey so you want me to buy you a beer or
something" and then when you go to pay for the drink
you take out a huge wad and she sees the wad and she
thinks yeah that's the kind of guy I want to go home
with tonight.

I tell you, if I was rich, I bet Cindy wouldn't have
left me. She was like "you got fired again?" and she
was out the door. Just out the door and I was like
"hold on" and she was like "you can't keep a job. I
can't be with a man who can't keep a job" and I was
like "fuck you bitch." And she was like "what did you
say to me?" Oh, so step two if you want to pick up a
girl, do not say "fuck you, bitch." Wait until she
sleeps with your best friend Phil and then dumps you
because you got-- because you are no longer employed.
Then you can say it, but don't expect her to stick
around or anything.

(From out in the yard we hear the sound of a dog
barking loudly. TOM shouts at the barking.)

Shut up! Shut up. Seriously. Shut up!

oh, soup, little play of mine

I received a request from a student at a university in
England today who wants to direct my play, Soup. This
is not the first time it's happened. I still don't
understand.

http://aszym.blogspot.com/2005/08/so-i-have-this-short-play-soup-i-wrote.html