FORT WAYNE - "5 Comedies In 1: Christopher Durang One Acts" will be at the Allen County Public Library Auditorium April 3-19.
The show is directed by Larry Wardlaw, and is in collaboration with the Allen County Public Library.Christopher Durang is a multiple Village Voice Obie Award winning playwright. This performance features a selection of Durang's outrageous one-act plays.
In "Mrs. Sorken," Mrs. Sorken welcomes the audience and explains her hysterical likes and dislikes about theater and her views on the meaning of life.
In "The Actor's Nightmare," an actor discovers himself on stage having never been to a rehearsal. He's pushed onstage dressed as Hamlet and finds himself in Noel Coward's Private Lives.
"Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room" is about Chris, a playwright, who has a meeting with a new Hollywood hotshot who pitches insane ideas for a screenplay.
In "Wanda's Visit," Jim and Marsha have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy. Jim's old girlfriend shows up for a visit and becomes the guest from hell.
"For Whom The Southern Bell Tolls" is a parody of Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie." The fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hypersensitive, hypochondriac son, Lawrence, for "the feminine caller." Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers.
The show is Rated R.
Cast includes Reuben Albaugh as Waiter, Priest, Lawrence; Kate Black as Mrs. Sorken, Sara, Amanda; Tiffany Dirig as Meg, Ginny; Julie Donnell as Melisa Stearn, Wanda; Lee Kelso as Henry, Jim; Richard Marchbanks as George Spelvin, Rabbi, Henchman, Tom; Terry McCaffrey as Executioner, Chris, Henchman; and Gloria Minnich as Ellen, Margaret, Marsha
Performances are April 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m.; and April 5 and 19 at 2 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased at the box office in the Civic Business Office at the Arts United Center. The box office number is 260-424-5220.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for people 23 years old and younger. Sunday senior matinees are $12.
