TRAINWRECK... where plays collided!

Sunday night October 28, 2007 at the Magnet Theater was the fourth installment of

TRAINWRECK!

Five scenes from four plays were performed in the first half of the show. Like the audience, the actors didn't know what the other scenes to be performed were until the night of the show. In the second half, the actors came back as their characters and improvised new scenes with the characters from the other plays. Like the first three shows, this one was a blast. All pictures were taken using my Motorola camera-phone. Thanks for being there, Verizon.

THE SCENES

Jack Goes Boating by Bob Glaudini

Jack (Shawn Wickens) and Connie (Mary Archbold)

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Dave Koenig as Ariel, Tim Wersan as Karturian, TJ Mannix as Tupolski

TJ Mannix as Tupolski(back), and Tim Wersan as Karturian

Assassins book by John Weidman

Desiree Nash as Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme and Ashley Ward as Sara Moore

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee

Justin Zell as Henry Drummond and Adam Nowak as Matthew Brady

And then there was a second short scene from Jack Goes Boating which is actually depicted above.

THE IMPROV

Shawn is "tied up" on the floor here.

THE PROMOTIONAL ELECTRIC POSTER

Can you name the plays from which the dialogue above was taken? Can you even read it? If so you probably know a lot about plays and have pretty good eyesight. See answers below.


What did I have to do with this? Well, I directed the scenes in the first half, and more or less put it all together. It's a lot of work and rehearsals for a one night show, but they were a talented cast which made it more than worth it.

Thanks to everyone who came out, and the Magnet for all of its support.

Until next time.... CHOO-CHOOOOO!

(Answers left to right: Martha - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Ricky Roma - Glengarry Glen Ross; Jessie - 'night Mother; Stanley - A Streetcar Named Desire)