Theatre roulette 2013

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May 9th-25th, 2013
Thursdays-Saturdays

All shows at 8pm with the exception of 5/25 when all 19 plays will be presented starting at 2pm, 4pm, & 8pm

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Back with their 14th annual THEATRE ROULETTE, MadLab continues to crank out Columbus’ longest running shorts festival. This year the festival is split up into three distinct nights of programming:

Ladies Night – This night is dedicated to the works of one playwright. This year it is Barbara Lindsey, whose this Almost Joy, was performed as part of Theatre Roulette 2011.

Home Brew – 6 selections taken from pieces submitted by Central Ohio playwrights.

Mixed Drinks -- Featuring 6 selections chosen from over 950 submissions sent in from all over the U.S. and beyond, just as in past versions of THEATRE ROULETTE.

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Show schedule

Ladies Night
5/9, 5/17, 5/25 (all at 8pm)
All plays written by Barbara Lindsay

• Holy Hell
  
• On The Line
• Spirit That Won't Let Me Go
• Spinsters 
  
• Finding Mr. Right
• Cosmic Goofs
• The Psycho Bitch and the Throbbing Blue Veiner

Evening directed by Michelle Batt

Home Brew
5/10, 5/18, 5/23 (all at 8pm), 5/25 at 2pm

• Strangers and Coffee
• Happy Panda
• Advise to the Happy Couple
• And What a Damn Fine Morning It Is
• The Squall
• Black Box Ninja

Evening directed by Andy Batt

Mixed Drinks 
5/11, 5/16, 5/24 (all at 8pm), 5/25 at 4pm

• Tigers in America
  
• The Naked Truth
  
• Conception
  
• The Call
  
• Bedtime Story
  
• Melodramatization

Evening directed by Jim Azelvander

show descriptions

HOLY HELL by Barbara Lindsay
A man and woman separately relate the story of the tragedy that brought them together and the love that redeemed them both.

CAST
Melissa Bair as Woman
Chad Hewitt as Man

ON THE LINE by Barbara Lindsay
A lonely woman calling a suicide crisis line on Valentine's Day gets a very different response than she was expecting.

CAST
Brendan Michna as Joe
Becky Horseman as Maureen

SPIRIT THAT WON’T LET ME GO by Barbara Lindsay
The sweet and happy meeting of two lovers is haunted by the presence of a silent second woman.

CAST
Travis Horseman as Bill
Courtney Deuser as Joy
Melissa Bair as Sarah

SPINSTERS by Barbara Lindsay
In the powder room of a restaurant, two women on a double date struggle to control their desperation about men.

CAST
Natasha Ward as Terry
Audrey Rush as Laura

COSMIC GOOFS by Barbara Lindsay
When HIM, a former lover, pays SHE a surprise visit, his tempting invitation causes her to bump up against questions of her own loyalty, standards, and desires.

CAST
Jennifer Barlup as She
Chad Hewitt as Him
Erin Prosser as Colleen

FIGHTING MR. RIGHT by Barbara Lindsay
It was a good first date. Terrific even. So why all this fighting?

CAST
Travis Horseman as Joel
Brigid Ogden as Maria

THE PSYCHO BITCH AND THE THROBBING BLUE VEINER
by Barbara Lindsay
When Greta and Hobie return from their first date, all decked out and hot to tumble, what they say has little to do with what they mean.

CAST
Erin Prosser as Greta
Shana Kramer as Greta Inner
Erik Sternberger as Hobie
Brendan Michna as Hobie Inner

TIGERS IN AMERICA by Theresa Giacopasi
A young woman named Freu is struggling with the fallout from a one-night stand, and the Zanesville Ohio exotic animal massacre of 2011, and a zoo attendant who won't let her into the tiger exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. She's having kind of a hard day.

CAST
MaryBeth Griffith as Freu

THE NAKED TRUTH by Greg Vovos
Copping a feel never felt so good…or so bad…as two strangers become intimate with the truth in this absurd first-encounter between two souls on the brink.

CAST
Elizabeth Harelik as Sheila
Josh Kessler as Rex

BEDTIME STORY by Christopher Lockheardt
Bedtime stories can be just the thing to send you off to sleep. But sometimes a story will keep you up all night long waiting for the happy ending.

CAST
Laura Spires as Jess
Aaron Geib as Billy

THE CALL by Peter Grandbois & Nancy Bell
It’s early morning in a hotel room and a middle aged married couple are figuring out what they’d like to do today, the first day of their Seattle weekend getaway in away from their kids.  The Space Needle, a gluten free lunch, and Starbucks are some ideas.  They have trouble with the darn internet connection!  The phone rings with a mysterious, irresistible, and romantic message.  This happens again and again to both of them.  These calls stir deep desires in both of them and force them to confront the emptiness of their marriage and the problem of love.

CAST
Jim Azelvandre as David
Maria Ritchey as Ellen

CONCEPTION by Alex Dremann
In bed late one night, Jackie solicits her husband's help with a short story she's trying to write... by climbing on top of him.

CAST
Mary-Aileen St. Cyr as Jackie
Sean Reid as Len

MELODRAMATIZATION by John Busser
Some people can tell a real story. Some people can really tell a story. Which isn't necessarily the same thing.

CAST
Richard West as Joe
Laura Marx as Mary
Drew Thompson as John
Chelsea Jordan as Meredith

STRANGERS AND COFFEE by Amanda Bauer
Ed has a nice, boring life that he likes, but when he's mistaken for someone else he gets the chance to change his nice, boring life.

CAST
Stephen Woosley as Ed
Mary Sink as Waitress
Briavel Schultz as Anna

THE SQUALL by Max Glenn
In the midst of an intense storm, a nephew comes to uncle desperate for one thing: his blessing to commit a murder.

CAST
Joe Liles as Simon
Andy Batt as Dan

BLACK BOX NINJA by Brendan Michna
Bob, a dystopian misanthrope exiled in suburbia, desperately tries to understand the reality he finds himself in after spending a night in what must be the ninth layer of Hell, a Golden Girls marathon without the ability to change the channel. Also there are Ninjas. How many is unknown.

CAST
Aran Carr as Bobbi
Greg McGill as Jeff
Jason Sudy as Montgomery
Briavel Schultz as Sara
Peter Graybeal as Stagehand

HAPPY PANDA SHOOTS HIMSELF by Preston Witt
Happy Panda Shoots Himself is the story of a man that wears a panda costume at his job. After a bad day at work, he heads to the bar in his panda getup and drinks too much. The play takes place inside the bar past closing time.

CAST
Andy Batt as Andy
Jason Sudy as Head

ADVICE TO THE HAPPY COUPLE by Jeremy Sony
What’s the key to a happy marriage? Michelle says one thing. Her husband, Will, has other thoughts. At their friends’ wedding, the advice-cam has found them and going on record might just test every theory they have.

CAST
Mary Sink as Michelle
Joe Liles as William

AND WHAT A DAMN FINE MORNING IT IS by Trace Crawford
Two suburban male stereotypes emerge from their houses one morning. As they exchange niceties, it becomes apparent that beneath their pleasant facade lies a deep-seated resentment of the other. What follows is a flurry of consumerist one-upmanship, culminating in the revelation of the true source of their competition.

CAST
Stephen Woosley as Ted
Jason Sudy as Jim