All in the Timing
A Humor, Drama, Fiction book. so even an assassin can make the flowers grow." -variations on the death of Trotsky David...
The world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words,"...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780679759287 / 0
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so even an assassin can make the flowers grow." -variations on the death of Trotsky David Ives, All in the Timing //
All In the Timing by David Ives is a fantastic collection of one act plays. David Ives is not only hilarious, but also creates some interesting artistic choices, like his play, Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread, which uses the same simple pieces of dialogue repeatedly in different patterns throughout the entire play. Although some of... All the plays thematically toy with various ideas and implications of time. The quality of the writing ranges from near-genius to totally gimmicky. I'm fairly certain this guy is the one responsible for the movie Groundhog Day. There are some very imaginative games he plays in here, and there is innovative staging to represent various... Six comic one-act plays, in descending order of my preference:"Words, Words, Words": Three monkeys named Swift, Milton, and Kafka are part of an experiment to see if they can in fact type Hamlet, all the while throwing bits of Shakespeare's play into their dialogue."Sure Thing": A couple meet at a cafe and every time their conversation...
