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Collection / Anthology, Comedy / 2w, 2m
David Ives
David Ives’ beloved collection of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. All in the Timing encompasses falling in love to existential crises – and everything in between.
All in the Timing comprises six hilarious one-act plays:
Sure Thing, where two people meet in a café and find their way through a conversational minefield but still fall in love.
Words, Words, Words which recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet.
The Universal Language, which brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language.
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread, a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, that captures an existential moment of crisis for the composer.
The Philadelphia where a young man in a restaurant has fallen into a Twilight Zone-like state.
Variations on the Death of Trotsky, which presents the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, trying to cope with the mountain-climber’s axe he’s discovered in his head.
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All in the Timing premiered off-Broadway at Primary Stages in 1993.
Sure Thing
BILL – Attractive, late 20s BETTY – Attractive, late 20s
Words, Words, Words
MILTON – Monkey SWIFT – Monkey KAFKA – A girl-monkey
The Universal Language
DAWN – Late 20s, plainly dressed, very shy, with a stutter DON – About 30, charming and smooth, with glasses YOUNG MAN
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
WOMAN 1 WOMAN 2 PHILIP GLASS BAKER
The Philadelphia
AL – California-cool, in a summer suit, 20s or 30s MARK – Frazzled, in a business suit, 20s or 30s WAITRESS – Weary, youngish
Variations on the Death of Trotsky
TROTSKY MRS. TROTSKY RAMÓN
“Like sketches for some hilarious, celestially conceived revue.” – The New York Times
“Theatre that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart. Ives is a mordant comic who has put the ‘play’ back in playwright… A wondrous wordmaster.” – Time Magazine
“An original turn of mind is to be saluted in our tired theatre… A playwright with ideas, his own ideas, in his head is relatively rare. Such a one is David Ives.” – New York Magazine
“The writing is not only very funny, it has density of thought and precision of poetry… All in the Timing is by a master of fun. David Ives spins hilarity out of words.” – The New York Times
New York Society Library – An Evening With David Ives
Kennedy Center Theatre Conversations – David Ives