Well, thank god that’s over.
Last night’s two back-to-back productions of our collaborative short play showcase at PURE Theatre, A Perfect Ten, was fun and all, but I must have been insane to schedule it for the middle of Spoleto’s second week. What was I thinking? If you noticed that my daily blogging updates have dipped in recent days, it’s because I was acting in a short play written and directed by PURE ensemble member David Mandel called “Type Against Type,” as well as directing my own short play, “Eight Grand,” which involves a menacing Mexican immigrant, a loquatious loan shark, a hapless poker player, an Xbox, a partly paid-off Chevy Tahoe, a semi truck with a false bottom, date rape drugs, and a pizza. (If I can figure out how to post a PDF of the script here, I will.)
Spoletoblog’s Dan Conover came by the 9pm show, which was very cool of him, and he writes about it on today’s blog. Like Dan, I’d love to see us put together some more of these types of things at PURE’s excellent little black box theatre (in the Cigar Factory at East Bay and Columbus) in the future. But not necessarily during the middle of Spoleto again.
If you haven’t yet been to see a play at PURE Theatre, you don’t know what you’re missing Every local theatre company has its strengths; PURE’s lies in great acting, a versatile, intimate space, and cutting-edge, contemporary scripts that are both entertaining and provocative. They’ll be producing David Mamet’s classic play about small-time crookery, American Buffalo, this July. Mark your calendars, because you want to catch it. Trust me.
Here’s a photo of PURE ensemble members R.W. “Smitty” Smith and David Mandel rehearsing “Eight Grand” before last night’s performance. These guys rock.
