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WS09/10: 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.

The Cast

Babel’s in Arms Sure Thing
Gorph David Kinkopf Betty Swaantje Siebke
Cannaphlit Manuel Anghel Bill Bernd Elzer
Eunuch Michael Banks
Businesswoman Caroline Schröter
Priestess Lisa Keimburg
directed by Christoph Nonn directed by Elke Nonn
A Singular Kinda Guy Words, Words, Words
Mitch Manuel Anghel ‚Milton‘ Victoria Bützler
‚Swift‘ Sebastian Schmitt
‚Kafka‘ Johanna Lauer
directed by Christoph Nonn
Time Flies The Philadelphia
May Jennifer Lewandowski Al Werner Schäfer
Horace André Manchen Mark Christoph Nonn
David Attenborough Michael Banks Waitress Caroline Schröter
directed by Elke Nonn directed by Elke Nonn
Variations on the Death of Trotsky Soap Opera
Trotsky Sebastian Schmitt Repairman Christian-Dominik Marx
Mrs Trotsky Kristina Heitzer Maitre d‘ Michael Banks
Ramon Manuel Anghel Madman Manuel Anghel
Mabel Michaela Frießem
Machine Lisa Keimburg
Mother Johanna Lauer
Friend Jürgen Kornmann
Toolbox Girl Swaantje Siebke
directed by Victoria Bützler directed by Christoph Nonn
Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread
Philip Glass David Kinkopf
Baker Christian Marx
First Woman Victoria Bützler
Second Woman Kristina Heitzer
directed by Victoria Bützler
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