Comedy is Hard!

I thought I'd take a moment to let you all know that we are hard at work rehearsing Five Years Later, which is set to open a little over a month from now, on April 11th. It's an absurdist comedy, and if you are familiar with that medium, you know that zany things happen to characters who are larger than life - not quite as large as with a farce, but pretty out there.

I have the privilege/challenge of playing Oblivia, the hostess of the evening's memorial (but when you get right down to it, it's more of a party for these characters to flaunt their neuroses than any sort of memorial service). She's not the most outlandish of all the characters, but it is hard to let go of the humanity of the character and just run with it. The last few roles I have had were completely grounded in reality (even though one of them was the fictional Snow White in POY's Fairytale Monologues). I also have to trust that I'll be funny - the writing is really clever, so I don't need to work at being funny, I just need to get the timing right. Wish me luck!

We've got a seriously ridiculous (in a good way) cast of characters in this play:

• A self-absorbed, technology-obsessed executive
• A sexy, vacuous model
• A tragically beautiful ward
• A bull dyke
• A flamboyant male nurse
• A theatre snob
• A sex-starved hippie
• A lovestruck playwright
• A dirty old man
• A debutant (my character)
• War, horseman of the Apocalypse
• Death, fourth horseperson of the Apocalypse

They all interact with each other - they flirt, they fight, they get their 'nads shot off... It's a hoot. We hope you enjoy it! Tickets are on sale now, so please check it out.