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Split Confusion, a new one-act play by Ned Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor, begins as Georges Depardieu (cousin of French film star Gerard Depardieu) falls drunkenly asleep in an easy chair in his home. When he wakes up, his house does not belong to him anymore; it belongs instead to an anonymous unseen "Master" and his smug butler Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia...
More intersted in new works than old classics? Then check out Split Confusion, a one-act comedy by Ned Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor. The play follows the experiences of Georges Depardiue as he is transported to a nameless place where he meets two copies of both himself and his girlfriend from parallel dimensions. And the absurdity only begins there. But beneath the surface, this "farce with a brain" probes deeper issues of the media and identity. So make your way to the Adams Pool Theater for laughter and thought all at once...
Georges Depardieu falls into bed and wakes up in an altered reality where he meets himself and his girlfriend-twice. First, the self and girlfriend whom he encounters are a pimp and a prostitute, respectively; in the second such couple, gender roles are reversed. Billing the one-act play as a "zany comedy with serious undercurrents," author and co-producer Ned Colby, who is also a Crimson editor, declines to elaborate on his script, its title or its premise, explaining that he wants audience members to "make up their own minds about what the play is saying-or saying...
...Crowe, revving into high-ecstatic mode. "Yet for someone that beautiful, she doesn't lead with her looks. Her silent moments are as great as when she speaks. Everybody says 'Audrey Hepburn' when they speak about her, and that's one of the big Audrey parts of her: she can turn a little silent moment into a one-act play. She also has this sense of humor that's waiting to pounce. The cool thing is she doesn't play 'girlish' like a lot of American actresses who go through all these light romantic comedies and end up playing cute...
...playwright entering the television industry, Rosow admits that she, like Alex, has feelings of insecurity. After writing two one-act plays, iSilent Nighti and iJames Dean,i which earned her top awards at the Rocky Mountain Young Playwrights Festival and the California Young Playwrights Festival, Rosow was spotted for this project by a high school classmateis father who was working at Fox. Although she signed a contract to write the pilot in the summer of 1998, management changes at the network forced her project to be put on the back burner...