{"id":5079,"date":"2017-02-08T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:33:33","slug":"comedy-comes-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/comedy-comes-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy comes to Western"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n
Western students have been hard at work on the upcoming theater production \u201cAll In The Timing.\u201d Written by David Ives, \u201cAll In The Timing\u201d is a set of six one-act plays that focus on wordplay. The play is directed by Western\u2019s own, Dr. Kent Neely, and also stars six Western \"\"students.<\/p>\n
Each one-act has its own characters and comedic style, so each actor gets to play multiple characters throughout the production.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach of the one acts heavily relies on the absurdity of language, specifically talking about [Universal Language] we literally speak gibberish for about half of it,\u201d said Lindsay Spear, a junior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts acting program and cast member.<\/p>\n
The one-acts featured in \u201cAll In The Timing\u201d include \u201cThe Philadelphia,\u201d \u201cUniversal Language,\u201d \u201cMere Mortals,\u201d \u201cSure Thing,\u201d \u201cWords Words Words\u201d and \u201cVariations on the Death of Trotsky.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all really funny. David Ives was a smart guy and he really used that to create comedy. That\u2019s a big part of it. It\u2019s just a really enjoyable show,\u201d said Nick Hulscher, a sophomore in the Bachelor of Fine Arts theater program and cast member.<\/p>\n
Asked about working with the rest of the cast, Spear responded, \u201cEverybody has brought their own style of comedy to it. Since we\u2019re all playing different characters, it\u2019s nice to see how everyone handles different characters and different one-acts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s only six of us, so we were almost all there every night for rehearsals and since we all already knew each other and it was such a small group, we got close really quickly and that let us connect on more of a personal level in the scenes,\u201d added Hulcher.<\/p>\n
Recounting her favorite part of being on the cast, Spears adds, \u201c\u2018Universal Language\u2019 is probably one of the the hardest plays I\u2019ve ever been in because I start off speaking English, but as it goes on I speak more and more of this gibberish language Unamunda and at one point we\u2019re supposed to scat in this Unamundan language and the one day we finally got it right we both started screaming. It was so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a series show. You should go into it expecting to laugh. Don\u2019t expect some serious tragedy because it\u2019s really the opposite,\u201d said Hulcher. He describes the set as a comedy club with a brick wall in the background.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll in the Timing\u201d runs in the Rice Auditorium Black Box studio Feb. 9-11 at 7:30 p.m. with an additional 2:00 performance on the 11th. Tickets are $14 or $8 for a Western student.<\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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