A Night of One Acts "II" consists of four short comedies that will engage your funny bone. Some of the funniest comedic talent in the Theatre Company will perform for your pleasure. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for OAC members, and $5 for children 12 and under.
The Laziest Man in the World
written by Carl Webster Pierce
Set in the living room of Mr Hemit’s apartment, two burglars, Jim & Bill, have broken in and are trying to open the safe of the wealthy resident. Bill, the lazier of the two, has been assigned to keep lookout while Jim works on getting the safe open. Bill explains to Jim that he has been scoping out the place, and finds that the owner of the apartment is an elderly gentleman in a wheelchair. During their exchange, Mr Hemit returns home with his faithful butler Benson. After Benson retires for the evening, Mr Hemit finds himself playing host to the couple of burglars. Hilarity ensures when the two thieves find that they have been outwitted by the laziest man in the world.
Cast:
Jim - Bill Edwards
Bill - Rob Thomason
Mr Hemit - Art Jones
Benson - Joey Jones
The Red Lamp
written by Hilliard Booth
A hungry tramp breaks into a house for food and recognizes a lamp which supposedly brings good luck when lit. The son befriends the tramp, who leaves when the boy's aunt, a strict maiden lady and the head of the house returns. The boy agrees to light the lamp as a signal for the tramp to return after his aunt has gone. The daughter also agrees to use the same signal to let her lover know her aunt - who disapproves of the match - has left the house. The aunt herself lights the lamp as a signal to a neighbor to have tea ready. Ensuing complications are fast, furious, and unexpected.
Cast:
Matilda - Jean Still
Harold - Joshua Roch
Bill - Darrell Whorton
Annie - Riley Robinson
Alice - Shelby Waters
Archie - Jamie Taylor
The Street of Good Friends
written by Owen G. Arno
produced by special permission from Dramatist Play Service
Three vacationing spinster schoolteachers have arrived in a small Italian town where they are stranded after their bus has broken down. But while Abigail and Grace are philosophic about the situation, Hester - who is irascible and has spoiled their fun from the beginning - creates an enormous fuss. The whimsical Abigail persuades the somewhat more reticent Grace to take a walk with her about the town, but Hester grumpily remains behind. When the two women return, several hours later, Hester immediately senses that something outrageous has happened to them. At first they have no intention of giving Hester an account of their evening, but Hester insists, and Abigail and Grace giddily relate their story. Unwittingly, it seems, the two women wandered into a lovely and friendly little street, appropriately named Via Boncampagni (The Street of Good Friends), when suddenly they were arrested. "You see, Hester," Abigail explains, "The Street of Good Friends is a street for bad girls." When brought before the judge they were shocked by the news that the fine was 1,000 lire for any woman found on the street without a license for "bad girlishness." But then, when the teachers created a fuss over the large sum of money involved, the judge and the policeman came up with a happier suggestion: Since a license to become a "bad girl" costs only 500 lire, if they were to buy one the school teachers would be saving 500 lire. So Grace and Abigail bought a license! Hester is appalled beyond belief, particularly when Abigail says that she is seriously considering sending the license back to the U.S. and passing it off as an honorary foreign degree. In a rage Hester rips the license to bits, but the others are not about to forfeit their adventure so easily, and a last-minute suggestion from Abigail saves the day.
Cast:
Abigail - Michelle Lindley
Grace - Debbie Waters
Hester - Mary Bishop
Woman at Hotel - Riley Robinson
For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls*
written by Christopher Durang
produced by special permission from Dramatist Play Service
In this parody of The Glass Menagerie, the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hypochondriacal son, Lawrence, for "the feminine caller." Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with "charm and vivacity," but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody.
Cast:
Amanda - Kat Enlow
Lawrence - Joshua Roch
Tom - Jamie Taylor
Ginny - Lara Shaw
*slightly risqué, but hysterically funny
