Soho Thinktank and Galapagos EVOLVE Series
present
a Working Mans Clothes/The Thursday Problem production
in association with
Jeffrey Schulman
FUCKPLAYS
THE IMPOTENCE OF BEING ERNEST
By JOSHUA HILL, Directed by JULIE ROSSMAN
MARRIAGE PLAY
By BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, Directed by DIANA BASMAJIAN
ARMS AND THE OCTOPUS
By CASEY WIMPEE, Directed by ISAAC BYRNE
WOOD
By JUSTIN COOPER, Directed by STEVEN GILLENWATER
SHARPEN MY DICK
By GREG ROMERO, Directed by COLE WIMPEE
CANDY ROOM
By WILLIAM CHARLES MENY, Directed by THOMAS CARUSO
THE SADDEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
By KYLE JARROW, Directed by MATTHEW HANCOCK
1.1-1.7
By ERIC SANDERS, Directed by STEPHEN BRACKETT
Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St., Manhattan, March 28 April 1, 2007
Galapagos Art Space, 70 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, April 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2007
Cast
(in order of appearance)
Adam Belvo Charlie Wilson Erin McCarson Jared Culverhouse
Julian James Mohammed Kaci Gober Elizabeth Kensek Eboni Hogan
Amy Lynn Stewart Steven Strobel Robert Funaro Lucy Walters
Will Neuman John Flynn Alessandra Ziviani Mark Thornton
David Mitsch Molly Ward Mick Bleyer Michael Mason
Elliotte Crowell Cole Wimpee Nell Mooney
The FUCKPLAYS is a series of eight short plays featuring everything from the sublime to the ridiculous to the disgusting to the religiously philosophical. Though the program ranges in interest-grabbing content and execution, overall the event is a laugh-a-minute journey through the sexual oddities and curiosities of 8 sets of characters.
The show opens with the delightful THE IMPOTENCE
OF BEING ERNEST, a witty homage to the Oscar Wilde inspiration about
an Ernest with an erection, and closes with the outrageous and hilarious
1.1-1.7, a short study in a couples lewd and crude
extra-relationship behavior. In between, we meet a
couple
who virtually copulate over dinner (MARRIAGE PLAY), a suicide
bomber who gets his comeuppance when he meets his virgins (and their
poly-vaginas) in the afterlife (ARMS AND THE OCTOPUS), an
unexpected, clever and uproarious threesome involving more than one
inanimate object (WOOD), a darker, more brutal, unlikely mιnage a
trois (SHARPEN MY DICK), a group of lascivious friends at a bar (CANDY
ROOM) and a vicious one night stand that starts with a mutual
interest in Patsy Cline, but ends with revenge (THE SADDEST THING IN
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD).
I had a great time at FUCKPLAYS. It is edgy, outrageous and fun, but it is also professionally executed. A team of skilled writers, directors and actors has come together, created a synergy, and delivers a program that unapologetically pushes boundaries. Bravo to that!
- Kessa De Santis -