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All In The Timing (Too)
Posted February 27th, 2009 by cdfierro
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Following up on last year’s Rogue sensation, A.R.T. returns with three all-new comedies from “All in the Timing.” These hilarious short one-acts are sometimes madcap, and often thought provoking. A woman yearns to be understood in “Universal Language.” Three construction workers marvel at their fantastic parentage in “Mere Mortals.” A couple goes through the absolute worst things you could say on a first date in “Sure Thing.” S. Eric Day, Michael Peterson, and Jeff White direct the individual one-acts.
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All in the Timing (Too) Review
All in the Timing was one of my favorites last year, and this year's rendition is just as good, if not a little better. It's tough to pick a favorite of this year's three one-acts. The first one, "Mere Mortals," was great in how it starts so "normal" and then quickly becomes completely bizarre. I loved how so much of the dialogue in "Universal Language" was nonsense in the words themselves, but the characters so perfectly conveyed the intentions of the words. And "Sure Thing" wove together a dialogue between two people meeting for the first time, rewinding after their various remarks to show how the differences in the content and timing of the remarks changed the direction of the conversation. In all three of the one-acts, the strangeness of the situations never gets in the way of the snappy pace or the performers' taking on of characters. There's not a dull moment in All in the Timing, and all the performers were great. Again, All in the Timing (Too) is one of my Rogue favorites.