Tangles In Your Teeth
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"Autumn Leaves". Cannonball Adderley. Cool, crazy, jazz. Yeah. Slip your feet into suede slippers, and wrap your shoulders in smooth, wool threads. Fall is my favorite time of year. Heart up, hands above my head, reveling in falling, fiery leaves.
Fall is the perfect time for a staged reading. In a little over two weeks, my comedy Tangles In Your Teeth will be performed at a Tufts University art gallery. October 17th, a day after my birthday. Contemporary Park Shorts hopes our friends and family will join us for this evening of a fun and refreshments. Tangles In Your Teeth is the first comedy I've ever written. I think of it as an existential farce. I don't know when I'll get back to this play, actually edit and revise the play into a full and complete, ready-for-the-stage piece of work. At present, my hope is that the play yields some laughs. I think it's important to remember that, as playwrights, we are first and foremost, entertainers. We write plays that must entertain an audience, essentially. This exercise in comedy is a great reminder for an experimental playwright, like me, that, essentially, I write for an audience. I infuse my drama with so many abstract ideas, and allusions to theory, it is good for me to bear in mind that I need to present my work in a way that my audience will find intriguing and entertaining. It's not funny unless the audience thinks it's funny. And, it's not good unless the audience thinks it's good. I am anxious to hear an audience's reaction to this play. I'm eager to know if my gut instinct is correct, if the "funny parts" are actually funny. With drama, I have a natural instinct about which sections resonate with my audience. I'm eager to find out if I have an inner compass with comedy. Actually, I'd like to find out how skewed my inner compass is in regards to comedy. That's the truth.
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