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...weeks ago, Adam R. Perlman ’04 mentioned Donkey Love, a one-act he just finished writing, to his blockmate Ben D. Margo ’04. The two didn’t waste any time moving from script to stage. Tomorrow night in the Adams Kronauer Space, Perlman’s show will open with Margo’s one-act, Kiddie Pool, in a performance the two are billing as “We Don’t Mind Sucking on Toes.” “We thought that was funny...
...super hero comic book rock star by night, a victim of the world by day,” she says. Brent’s best friend, an inventor named Ty (Jay Chaffin ’06), first appears on stage recounting a religious experience on the toilet. Perlman, who is also a Crimson editor, describes Ty as a “cutting edge QVC media mogul, always inventing another crowd-pleasing novelty item.” His invention du jour is the Oedipus 2000, which allows children with inferiority complexes to kill their fathers—in virtual reality...
...Perlman hesitates to articulate the point of his one-act. “What is the play about? I hate that question,” he says, laughing, “because I don’t want to tell the audience what they should think.” Perlman does reveal, however, that the story is based on “myself, my friends...every conversation on which I’ve ever eaves-dropped while riding the subway and a bunch of thoughts I wish...
Both scripts have evolved considerably since the early stages of rehearsal. Margo says he appreciated the luxury of workshopping his script during the staging process. “Until you die,” Perlman says, “a script is never really finished—not when rehearsals start, not when tech work starts, not when performances start...
Written by Ben D. Margo ’04, Adam R. Perlman...