Show Dates:   March 16-18; 22-25

Directed by:      Angela Sebben Frick 

Assistant Director/Production Manager:   Betsy Gasoske

Six One-Act Comedies:

SURE THING:  Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love.

Cast:  Bill - Paul Cooper, Betty - Sarah Keeven, Bell Ringer - Sofia Murillo  

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS:  Three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce HAMLET. What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? 

Cast:  Swift - Jamie Linsin, Kafka - Krystal Stevenson, Milton - Sherman Doyle

THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE:  Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love. 

Cast:  Dawn - Estee Schwartz, Don - Rob Stevenson, Man - Terry Donnelly

PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD:  A celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. 

Cast:  Woman #1 - Krystal Stevenson, Woman #2 - Sarah Keeven
          Philip Glass - Paul Cooper, Baker - Terry Donnelly

THE PHILADELPHIA:  A young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants.

Cast:  Al - John Urbanek, Mark - Sherman Doyle, Waitress - Sofia Murillo 

VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY:  The Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head.

Cast:  Trotsky - Mark Zoole, Mrs. Trotsky - Jan Niehoff, Ramon - Rob Stevenson

For more information: tgwg.info@gmail.com or call 314-962-0876.