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WS 07/08: All in the Timing by David Ives

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WS 09/10: All in the Timing
About the Play

„Celebrating the weirdness of being alive“ (David Ives)

Six scenes of hilarious verbal curiosities and absurd comedy. David Ives turns language inside out.

Babel’s in Arms: Two slaves, a stone, and heaps of desert sand. Is that enough to build the Tower of Babel? Infinetely high? Big engineering problem!

Sure Thing: Bing! A man and a woman meet in a bar. As time spins forward and backward they discover the numerous possibilities of what may happen. Is love random?

A Singular Kinda Guy: Man or machine? A journey of discovery with Mitch, a singular kind of fellow.

Words, Words, Words: Three monkeys, three typewriters and a bowl of peanuts. All this part of a crazy experiment to find a fundamental truth: Can a monkey write Hamlet?

Time Flies: Carpe Diem! Seize the day! But what if you live for only one single day? Two mayflies have to learn their lesson the hard way: Not much time for romance!

The Philadelphia: A place where nothing seems what it should be. Where you get cheesesteaks instead of hamburgers, where you’re punished for being polite. Forget Albert Einstein and Black Holes. Think David Ives and Philadelphia!

Variations on the Death of Trotsky: Trotsky is dead, pondering his violent murder. But that doesn’t keep him from fighting for the revolution of the proletariat forever.

About the Author

David Ives‘ one-act plays have a great deal in common with the works of the British playwright Tom Stoppard. The two contemporary authors share a talent for sophisticated artistic wordplays, a feeling for comic effect and the use of absurd elements, which contribute to entertaining compositions full of theatrical invention.

American playwright David Ives was born in 1950 and lives in New York, where he is engaged in writing plays and adapting shows for Broadway. In the mid-nineties he was named one of the ‚100 Smartest New Yorkers‘ by New York Magazine.

Press Reviews

Comedy mit Tiefgang (Trierischer Volksfreund, 08/02/2008, pdf)

The Cast

Babel’s in Arms
Gorph David Kinkopf
Cannaphlit Manuel Anghel
Eunuch Thomas Wahrlich
Businesswoman Johanna Lauer
Priestess Jessica Whiteley
Sure Thing
Betty Sabine Lamberty
Bill Lukas Tillmann
A Singular Kinda Guy
Mitch Lukas Tillmann /
Manuel Anghel
Words, Words, Words
‚Milton‘ Thomas Wahrlich
‚Swift‘ Sebastian Schmitt
‚Kafka‘ Johanna Lauer
Time Flies
May Julia Petry
Horace Lukas Tillmann
David Attenborough Alexander Claren
The Philadelphia
Al Thomas Wahrlich
Waitress Verena Cavelius
Mark Stephan Liebsch
Variations on the Death of Trotsky
Trotsky Sebastian Schmitt
Mrs Trotsky Jessica Whiteley
Ramon Manuel Anghel
directed by Elke & Christoph Nonn
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