It's Showtime for the Play! Where Is It?

Dwayne Yancey: A confused writer.

It's looking an awful lot like Showtimers' impromptu production of Dwayne Yancey's new play, which has a couple of titles, will be, in Dwayne's words, "a train wreck" Saturday night. That may be a good thing.

This started with me asking Dwayne a simple question to which I have been unable to get a response from Showtimers (until now): Where will the damn thing be staged? 

I thought it was at Wasena Park. Dwayne says it'll be at the Showtimers' studio on McVitty Road. But where? Maybe outside, maybe the porch, maybe the audience sitting in the parking lot (on its own brought-along chairs). Showtimers' response is outside, porch, parking lot.

Dwayne writes this response to me:

"They want a train wreck of a show and I suspect that's what they'll get. I was given some instructions--basically a silly script for a cast of six--so that's what I gave them. "

The only person who has seen the script is the stage manager, who I gather is in charge of costumes, etc. The actors won't see the script until it is handed to them before they go on 'stage'--whatever/wherever the stage is. The casting was done randomly. They had people volunteer, then they drew the names randomly without regard for age, gender, anything."

Even the name of the play is confusing to its author (and to me): "The Show Must Go On (With Some Exceptions)" vs. Showtimers' preference, "In the Moment."

LindaK and I are going and we're going to have a good time. The confusion may amplify that. But I'm glad I asked the key question.