TEXTILES & FAKE SMILES night of programming

performances on 5/4, 5/12, 5/20, & 5/25 @ 8pm, 5/27 @ 2pm

Old-Fashioned Seamed Nylon Stockings by J.J. Steinfeld

Coming Out of the Closet by John Zygmunt

The Shirt by S.H. Crawford

BAD NEWS & RENDEZVOUS night of programming

performances on 5/5, 5/13, 5/18 & 5/26 @ 8pm, 5/27 @ 4pm

Greek to Me by Kristina Meek

The Rebuttal by Jennifer Feather Youngblood

Mr. Jones Has a Day by Jim Azelvandre

CRUSTACEANS & FRUSTRATIONS night of programming

performances on 5/6, 5/11, 5/19, & 5/27 @ 8pm

Jams & Jellies by Donald Dewey

Level Four by Susan Hunter

Say No More by Michael Kimball

The Happy Lobster by William Whitehurst

227 North 3rd Street | Columbus, OH 43215 | 614.221.5418

THEATRE ROULETTE is back again. Now in its seventh year, it is the longest running annual shorts festival in Central Ohio.  The plays are broken up into three separate nights of programming. Be sure to check the schedule below to see what play is being shown on what day, or you can just take your chances.  All shows are at 8pm with the exception of May 27th where all 10 plays will be performed starting at 2pm.

May 4th-27th, 2006

Thursdays-Saturdays

$12 regular admission

$10 students/seniors

$10 MadLab Members

GREEK TO ME by Kristina Meek

Lying, cheating, jealousy, revenge...is it a Greek tragedy or an American high school?  Alicia, the Most Popular Girl in School has been scorned by the heartless hearthrob, Jason.  Surrounded by enemies who look like friends, led by the ubiquitous Nurse, Alicia plots her revenge.  Meanwhile, there is incest afoot when Tyrone falls for his *gasp* cousin, and the scheming Shara finds out about it.  The cheerleaders, the football players, the geeks, and the divas are all out to get each other in this wild farce filled with high-falutin language and low-brow humor.

CAST AND CREW

Vanessa Forster as Alicia

Traci Weaver as Shara

Nikki Rehmert as Lana

Scott Wilson as Tyrone

Eric Keitel as Thomas

David Thonnings as Brent

Brian Cheslik as Shara’s Brother

Sarah Brunet as Nori

Vicki Andronis as Becki

Nikki Smith as Annabel

Jennifer Feather Youngblood as The Nurse

Directed by Jim Azelvandre

JAMS & JELLIES by Donald Dewey

Daniel is a middleaged writer whose blindness has become a vision of bitterness and contempt, not least for himself.  Melissa, hired to read him the daily newspaper, has fallen into a trap of identifying with his psychological limitations even more than assisting him with his physical ones. Then one morning he takes out an assortment of jams and jellies for breakfast and the relationship they had both been counting on begins to ooze away.

CAST AND CREW

Joe Lorenzo as Daniel

Vanessa Forster as Melissa

Directed by Randi Morgan

LEVEL FOUR by Susan Hunter

Using the setting of a video game, LEVEL FOUR explores the abusive relationship between Lara, a battered wife, and her husband Nick.  As “warriors” in the game, they battle each other with various kitchen utensils until Lara is killed by Nick.  As in all video games, Lara is given a chance to reset and play again.  In a series of blackouts, she progresses further and further, yet each time is killed with a new weapon.  Will she gain the strength and skill to overcome Nick’s violence and move onto the next level of “Love’s Fond Game?”

CAST AND CREW

Vanessa Forster as Lana

Joe Lorenzo as Nick

Directed by Jennifer Feather Youngblood

MR. JONES HAS A DAY by Jim Azelvandre

A rented room.  A mysterious tape recorder.  A mission so easy that mean all over the world do it every day.  But Mr. Jones is no ordinary man, and the worst is yet to come - or not.  Mr. Jones is about to have quite a day.

CAST AND CREW

Michael Moore as Mr. Jones

Nikki Smith as Cleaning Woman

Rich Stadler as Voice #1

Nikki Johnson as Voice #2

Directed by Peter Graybeal

THE REBUTTAL by Jennifer Feather Youngblood

A man and a woman, with help from a pair of imaginary classical archetypes, try to dissect a past relationship.

CAST AND CREW

Andy Batt as Inamorato

Jennifer Barlup as Inamorata

Melissa Bair as Columbiana

Josh Kessler as Arlecchino

Directed by Michelle Batt

OLD-FASHIONED SEAMED NYLON STOCKINGS by J.J. Steinfeld

A forty-nine year-old man, about to leave a party, meets an unusual, seductive thirty-one year-old woman in a bedroom of the house where they party is taking place.  Her use of language and ideas makes him view his unsatisfactory life differently than he has in the past.  A look at the difficulties of communication, and how language and sexuality, desire and deception, affect people.

CAST AND CREW

Wray Withers as Woman

Jim Azelvandre as Man

Directed by Michael Bailey

SAY NO MORE by Michael Kimball

Two couples, having dinner on New Year’s Eve, begin noticing the awkward silences that punctuate their conversation.  When they make a sport of seeing who can create the longest awkward silence, the game turns brutal.

CAST AND CREW

Jennifer Feather Youngblood as Susan

Michael Moore as Robert

Stephen Woosley as Eric

Sarah Brunet as Denise

Directed by Nikki Smith

THE HAPPY LOBSTER by William Whitehurst

Bob was just another lobster-slinging manager of another Happy Lobster Restaurant, his soul as gnawed as the shells he discarded in the dumpster at the end of each shift, until in a glorious example of late night, cross-species pollination, Lucy the Lobster Goddess revealed to him the secret to transforming himself and his restaurant: learn to love the lobsters he was serving.  But though Bob has succeeded in casting off his old shell and finding the lobster-loving Bob beneath, he has yet to communicate his vision to another human being.  Indeed, he has lost his family, his home and ma now lose his restaurant.  But, just when he is about to give in to despair, in walks Milton Clark, looking for a job as a dishwasher.  Bob has one last chance to find help in undertaking his great task.  But, can a pimply, eighteen year old dishwasher learn all Bob has to teach him in time to save them both?

CAST AND CREW

Jim Azelvandre as Bob

Scott Wilson as Milton

Directed by Ric Shoemaker

THE SHIRT by S.H. Crawford

Rocco just bought a shirt from a thrift store that his wife doesn’t want him to have.  Frank just came over to watch the game and eat some hot dogs.  Rocco wants Frank to know about the shirt and help him justify why he bought it.  Frank just came over to watch the game and east some hot dogs.  Rocco needs Frank to understand and validate him.  Frank wants hot dogs.

CAST AND CREW

Andy Batt as Rocco

Chris Lane as Frank

COMING OUT OF THE CLOST by John Zygmunt

Raging hormones times four adds up to a disenchanted couple who didn’t intend to meet trying to explain the unexplainable...a wife planning a major lifestyle change - with her unconventional lover - plots a gateway, but she gets noticed at just the wrong moment by her husband, who has brought hom work from the office - work that doesn’t mind being sworn at and even requests he get out the corn oil.  Such is life...such is farce.

CAST AND CREW

Vicki Andronis as Linda

Andy Batt as Mark

Liz Brown as Susan

Sarah Brunet as Julie

Directed by Stephen Woosley