Show Summary

 

Sure Thing

The Play “Sure Thing” from David Ives examines the endless variations of boy meet girl and the ensuing pick up lines. The central theme throughout the play displays a few varieties of a possible conversation that end with a ringing bell that symbolizes a fresh start and a second chance to make a good impression.

     The swift conversations begin in a coffee house with the two main and only characters are Bill and Betty. From the beginning till the end of the play one can see a series of pick up lines, from a man to a woman sitting in a coffee shop reading. The lines start out short and rapid with an equivalent short response from the woman. Each line is separated by a ringing bell. All humans are critical of their fellow human’s beings. They are critical about their looks, cars and etc. Generally there is an old saying “you never have a second chance to make a first impression.” In this play the author uses a bell as a mechanism of separating the dialogue of subsequent pick up lines, which gives the characters another chance to make a good impression.

 

Take 5

Imagine you are an actor on opening night trying to perform on a set that isn't completed. Then one actor doesn't show up, a man from the audience uses your stage phone to argue with his wife, the props either don't work or are missing, the lighting and sound cues are off and two silly, incompetent stagehands. That's only the beginning of this award-winning show which actually caused a woman in one audience to fall from her chair in laughter. This delightful play is filled with surprises and zany characters and is ideal for competition, fund-raising and pure entertainment.

 

Alky

"Alky" and it's companion "Juvie", both one-acts by Jerome McDonough, are among the most produced plays in the United States. How many thousands of people have been maimed or killed because of "a few drinks"? Or due to someone else's drinking? Alky turns the spotlight on alcohol as it affects young adults. Many parents who are horrified at the thought of their children using drugs don't worry a moment about "a beer or two now and then." In fact, some kids get their first drink from Mom and Dad. But statistics show that alcohol is the most dangerous drug of all from the standpoint of ruining lives—and taking lives. In Alky Jerome McDonough traces a teenage couple from their first drink to their...last. McDonough asks, "How many more will have suffered by the time you read this? Do me a favor—stay whole and alive."