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Page 16 Over The Edge - November 26, 1996

ACTORS PROVE IT’S ALL IN THE

TIMING

What do a series of catch
phrases, a state of existence
called a “Philadelphia” and
three lab monkeys with
typewriters have in common?

They’re all part of three very

_ funny improv plays put on last

week by the Prince George
Theatre Workshop.

Right from the start the actors
gave the audience something to
laugh about, setting up the
stage for the first play, Sure
Thing, by calling out
commands to each other and
interpreting them...literally.
The director, Susanna
Edwards, gave her directions
from a large box in the middle
of the stage to “Number Two”
played by Cory Hicks. The
commands were passed down
from Hicks to “Number
Three”, Ron Lehr and “Number
Four”, Mieke Mynen, who had
to give each command her
undivided attention.

This was not very easy.

The three actors on stage had
to cope with just about
everything happening on their
opening night, from their table
losing a leg to pulling members
out of the audience when
“Number One” told them to
bring “everybody back to the
box.” The end of the set-up
scene was done quite well, with’
various signs being held out of
the box saying things like

“Why did the chicken cross the
road?” and “Did you see my
name in the paper?”

The first play went smoothly
with Lehr and Mynen playing
off each other to create a
humourous conversation in a
coffee shop. The constant
shifts in banter and mannerism
kept the audience awake and
running to keep up with the
action.

In between acts the ususal
stage set-up occured again.
With the opening of the second
play, The Philadelphia, it took
the audience a little bit longer
to warm to the actors manner
as some of the dialogue was
stronger. The action
progressed quickly enough,
with Hicks discovering that he
existed in a state called a
“Philadelphia” where you
could only get what you
wanted by asking for what you
didn’t want.

The setup for the third play
involved the players going into
overtime with their arobics.
(Extra honors going to Mieke
Mynen for her continual
fountain of conversation,
asking one member of the
audience if they would like a
peanut and trying to clean up
the mess of peanuts when they
got thrown all over the floor.)

The third play, “Words,
Words, Words”, was not as

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well done, as is the case so
often when actors mix their
acting with food. Each of the
actors played out a lab monkey
named after a prominent
writer, set up in a laboratory
with the task of reproducing
“Hamlet”. Based more on
exploring the depths of the
human condition, the play lest
many theatre-goers when the
bananas on stage were eaten
and thrown around.

Overall, the Prince George
Theatre Workshop got off to an
excellent start with this set of
three plays and can expect

another season of well attended —

endevors.

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- Top Ten Things That We Did
On New Year’s Eve That We
Really Regret Doing

By Vince Yim

10: Getting drunk and
flirting with your best
friend’s sister.

f 9: Getting drunk and

dancing to the Macarena.

8: Getting drunk and
urinating on what we
THOUGHT was a urinal
(but was really the
Christmas tree).

7: Getting drunk and
playing strip poker with
your best friend’s sister.

6: Getting drunk and
playing Charades with
your parents.

5: Getting drunk and
vomiting on that really
expensive rug.

4: Getting drunk and
licking a lightpole just to
see what would happen.

3: Getting drunk and
placing a lampshade over
your head (but it was
actually your best friend’s
sister’s dress).

2: Getting drunk and
being arrested for DWI.

1: Staying sober and doing
nothing but watching TV.