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February 2005
Love Never Fails is an evening of three one act comedies about the power and pitfalls of love.
"Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve"
Edited and Adapted for the Stage by:
David Birney
Directed by: David Hutson
"The Diaries of Adam and Eve" is
an adaptation by David Barney of two books written by Mark Twain. The first
book, "The Diary of Adam," originally published under the title
"The First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls," for reasons that become
apparent later, was published during the 1890's. Twain was fifty-five and
his wife was in failing health when it was written. "The Diary of Eve"
was written almost fifteen years later. Twain was seventy and it was written
shortly after the death of his beloved Livy. At this point in his life Twain
had outlived three of his four children. Needless to say the tone of this
diary is completely different from that of the earlier work.
What this play has done is taken these two voices from different times in
Twain's life and put them together. Heard together they become an enduring
love story that somehow transcends the fragile yearning of romance, the
inevitable disappointments and misunderstandings inherent in any
relationship, even death itself. It is a portrait of two very unusual
people, those first "lovers" who meet under the most unlikely circumstances,
that first garden, and what they make together over a lifetime...it is a
portrait of a love that somehow survives, a love that prevails.
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
By: Dennis Snee
Directed by: Bridgette Chamberlain
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" is a
series of three vignettes following the problems three couples face in their
respective relationships. We are guided on our journey by a likable Narrator
who is a chatty sort of fellow. His observations are both general and
specific, although his outlook tends to be casual in either case. We first
meet Marshall and Margaret, an elderly couple married for fifty years; they
have their ups and downs. Margaret is always right and Marshall isn't very
assertive which makes for the occasional clash.
Bob and Doris are a middle aged couple that find their relationship strained
by the prospect of Bob moving away to pursue a new job opportunity in
another state, where the climate happens to be better for his fragile
mother's health. Can they make the long distance relationship work? Will
Doris forget Bob and move to New York?
Our final couple is a pair of high school sweethearts. Marshall, a senior,
has decided it's time to move on and end his three month relationship with
junior Carolyn. But how should he do it? When should he do it? How will
Carolyn take it? Will he get accepted into college? Marshall mulls over his
options and try's to work up the courage to, just do it.
And comedy ensues.
"I'm Herbert"
By : Robert Anderson
Directed by: David Hutson
"I'm Herbert" is one of four acts in the play "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running." In fact, it is more of a vignette than a bonified one act play. Much shorter than "Diaries" or "Breaking Up,"; "I'm Herbert" is not short on laughs. Herbert and his wife Muriel have had very full and at times interesting lives. But many of those experiences were had individually, or with other people, or spouses. You see we are not quite sure how long these two have been together. We do know they were each married before, how many times, it's not clear they even know. As they sit and reminess over days gone by they can't quite keep it straight who did what with whom. Did Muriel go to Venice with Herbert, Harry, George or was it Bernie? Bernie who? Who is Helen and was Mary or Grace Herbert's first wife. And how did Herbert conceive his step-son under the willow tree. In the end what does it really matter, because Herbert and Muriel are happy together and that's all the really counts because, Love Never Fails!
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