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All in the Timing

Six one act plays by David Ives -- all short, comedic and thought-provoking:

Sure Thing: A man and a woman meet for the first time in a cafe, where they have an awkward meeting continually reset each time they say the wrong thing, until, finally, they connect

Words, Words, Words: Three chimpanzees attempt to write Hamlet. It discusses the merits of literature and questions its necessity.

The Universal Language: A man and a woman fall in love while communicating in the invented language Unamunda.

Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread: A musical parody of minimalist composer Philip Glass, in which he has an existential crisis in a bakery.

The Philadelphia: A man in a strange state where he must ask for the opposite of what he wants in a restaurant.

Variations on the Death of Trotsky: Leon Trotsky dies several times from a mountain-climber's ax wound received 36 hours prior.