Theatre roulette 2011

SHOWTIMES

May 5th-28th, 2011
Thursdays-Saturdays

All shows at 8pm with the exception of 5/28 when all 12 plays will be presented starting at 2pm, 4pm, & 8pm

press

Theatre Roundtable Review

Columbus Dispatch Review - Queen of Hearts

Columbus Dispatch Review - Suicide Kings

Columbus Dispatch Review - One-Eyed Jacks

The Other Paper Review - Queen of Hearts


Columbus Underground Review - Queen of Hearts 

Columbus Underground Preview

Columbus Alive Preview

Columbus Dispatch Preview #1

Columbus Dispatch Preview #2

THEATRE ROULETTE, in its twelfth year, continues as Central Ohio’s longest running annual shorts festival.

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Show schedule

Queen of Hearts
5/5, 5/13, 5/21, 5/26 (all at 8pm), 5/28 at 2pm

• Mornin', Daughter Mine
  
• Seldom is Heard
• Boom, Pow, Oof

One-Eye Jacks
5/6, 5/14, 5/19, 5/27 (all at 8pm), 5/28 at 4pm

• This Almost Joy
• Lolly
• The Meeting

Suicide Kings
5/7, 5/12, 5/20, 5/28 (all at 8pm)

• Hound Dog and Me
• Up On the Roof
• Stuck
• There is No Good News

show descriptions

BOOM, POW, OOF by Jennifer Feather Youngblood
In a comic-book world of superheroes and supervillians, civilians have to learn to be powerful without powers.

CAST AND CREW
David Tull as Henry
Stephen Woosley as Martin
Jim Azelvandre as Gary
Josh Kessler as Sean
Linda O’Donnell as Gladys
Michelle Batt as Dr. Nebula Bryce

Directed by Jennifer Feather Youngblood

HOUND DOG AND ME by Chris Lane
An exploration of the inner workings of a mind that is in duress.

CAST AND CREW
Chris Lane as Hound Dog
Andy Batt as Me

Directed by Michelle Batt

LOLLY by Donald Dewey
Barbara goes to Leo's Doll Repair store to get the eyes changed on her doll. When the mysterious --- and mysteriously aggressive --- Leo asks her why, she says it's because she wants to pass the doll on to her daughter and have the girl's doll see different things than her mother's has. Before she knows it, Leo has her revealing some of those things, and not merely for therapeutic purposes.

CAST AND CREW
Sarah Brunet as Barbara
Peter Graybeal as Leo

Directed by Randi Morgan

MORNIN’, DAUGHTER MINE by Tom Deiker
A mother makes a radical proposal to save the life of her suicidal daughter.

CAST AND CREW
Melissa Bair as Nan
Hilary Shelton as Robyn

Directed by David Thonnings

SELDOM IS HEARD by Mary Steelsmith
A woman whose husband newly returned from combat in Afghanistan, copes with his I.E.D.-caused head injury. battles a local kind of terrorist, the pink suited president of their local Neighborhood Restoration Association (N.R.A.)

CAST AND CREW
Melissa Bair as Hanna
Jennifer Feather Youngblood as Marilyn
Vince Reese as Ivan

Directed by Michelle Batt

STUCK by Christopher Lockheardt
They say that you never really know someone until you're trapped in a revolving door with them.

CAST AND CREW
Stephen Woosley as Man
Michelle Batt as Woman

Directed by Andy Batt 

THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS by Quentin James
Jerry, Carmichael, and Paul.  Three grown men running in the desert.  With them a caboodle of other inspired and unheralded runners trudging their lives behind them in their wake.  How long they’ve been running is too long for their comfort.  To where they are running they have no idea.  The reason they are running is beyond their comprehension.  They are tired, stinky, and confused; yet the only  thing that they are certain of is that they all must keep going.

CAST AND CREW
Andy Batt as Jerry
Brendan Michna as Carmichael
David Thonnings as Paul

Directed by Nikki Smith

THE MEETING by Greg Freier
A small group of corporate executives attempt to disavow themselves from their own ineptness in a nonsensical, gibberish induced forum and arrive at the only logical conclusion they can deduce: violent incompetence.

CAST AND CREW
Vicki Andronis as Jenkins
Sarah Brunet as Dibble
Josh Kessler as Porter
Erin Prosser as Smith

Directed by Peter Graybeal

THIS ALMOST JOY by Barbara Lindsay
Friendly Professor Hart-Meadows, an actor in what he believes is a rather dull play, decides to speak directly to the audience, engaging them in a conversation about the nature of reality.  This is upsetting for the other characters in the play, Sylvia and Bradley, for whom the play is the real world.  The confrontation intensifies as Sylvia and Bradley’s desire to save Prof. Hart-Meadows from madness bumps up against the Professor’s insistence on his own truth.

CAST AND CREW
Jim Azelvandre as Professor Steven Hart-Meadows
Vicki Andronis as Sylvia Hart Johns
Michael Moore as Bradley Johns
Mony Carpenter as Margaret Hart-Meadows

Directed by Travis Horseman

UP ON THE ROOF by Mark Harvey Levine
Jason is looking for a sign from God.  Carrie is looking for a little help with the dishes.

CAST AND CREW
Damian Synadinos as Jason
Christina Duryea as Carrie

Directed by Andy Batt