Things that are awesome and things that are not

[jethrien]

Things that were awesome this weekend:
- The entire concept of the one act play festival birthday party
- Watching people perform something I wrote (quite well, given that we had about half an hour total for rehearsal and prop finding)
- Dueling shnayder in an improvised play constructed from lines we pulled out of Twelve Angry Men (him) and Oedipus Rex (me)
- Meeting really cool people who live in New York and I should try to get together with sometime
- Having really amazing tapas with my uncle for brunch

Things that were not awesome:
- Spending three and a half hours in a mall parking lot in Waterbury, CT after my bus broke down

In other news, I feel like I know someone who works at Lehmen Brothers who I should be worrying about, but I can't for the life of me remember who.

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[dushai.livejournal.com]

Dueling shnayder in an improvised play constructed from lines we pulled out of Twelve Angry Men (him) and Oedipus Rex (me)

I must hear about this! Tell us more!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It started off as sort of a joke that became a performance piece. Five of us each had a different script. We'd each read a line from our script. The trick was, you had to try to find something that sounded vaguely appropriate fast enough to keep the conversation going at a natural rhythm. The audience tried to guess which play each of us was reading from. When a reader's play was guessed, they sat down.

The others were guessed pretty quickly, but Victor and I managed to pick quotes that were vague enough that no one could guess ours, but our dialogue actually made a kind of sense. We went back and forth for a couple minutes until Victor finally got bored and read "Curtain".

It helped that both of our plays contained a lot of people arguing and questioning each other, and both involved a murder.