August 30, 2024 • 35 mins
The final episode of our Summer Season Selection Series Spectacular is here! Erika got the word SLAP and goes all in on slapstick comedy. We get appearances from silent movie stars, famous farces that you'll lose your mind at, and a new origial Borak/Kuhn co-written play about Slap Fighting Championships. It's a great one.
*No iterns were hurt in the making of this episode*
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, The Scene: Podcast, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out Justin's YouTube channel for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out Justin's website and Erika's website for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn and Justin on TikTok for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
*No iterns were hurt in the making of this episode*
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, The Scene: Podcast, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out Justin's YouTube channel for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out Justin's website and Erika's website for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn and Justin on TikTok for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, here's the theme song, right, Hey, welcome to play
to Zee.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It was really good. Honestly, there's something about it that
I laughing.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey, everybody, welcome to the see I'm your co host,
Justin Borak. I'm your co host Eric, and welcome to
the fourth and final episode of the summer season selection.
What it is the last one? It is? Yeah, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sorry, I'm laughing. I thought he was doing a bit
before we started singing.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
When we started, actually kind of past.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I didn't sing because I thought for sure he was
joking to try and get me to sing alone.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I said, you better sing with me. I said, let's
do this because I like the song. I wanted to
start the episode by singing this bit. And you didn't
sing with me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I fully thought you were trying to goof me. Oh
that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh yeah, it's super funny.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome to the last episode, yeah of the summers.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, welcome to the last episode. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm really good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm okay, it's only okay, I'm only okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know who what is saying? What? Eight hundred in
terms dying for the spot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Dang, we have eight hundred this season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's so stinky.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
If you're wondering what this is our summer this is
our summer season before we get into season three, which
is just a couple of weeks away. Everybody get excited
the next actually next episode. This is a playout. But
very soon you're gonna hear what season three is, and
it's gonna be very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're gonna like it a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We think you're gonna like it a lot. But there's
the last episode of the summer season selection series, Society Spectacular. Basically,
both Eric and I pulled up a couple of words
on randomword generator dot net. There's one of our biggest sponsors,
our biggest corporate sponsor. It's crazy that you're cool doing
that bit as much as you want, but you won't
(01:55):
sing a song with me for four because.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I thought a bit was that you weren't gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It talking about I said, same with me. You can't
trust me. You can't trust me.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Like that that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I do not. I've never done a bit like that.
I've never done a bit to goose on you or
you're well being. I would never. I'm offended. I'm offended, dumb,
I'm offended she's been lost for years. Okay, So the
point of this, though, is that we pulled up a
couple of words on random word generator, we chose the
one that we liked, and we based a theater season
around it at our fictional theater, the Correct. Yes, this
(02:28):
is the final one. We've done a couple week I
did Reserve and Television Erica has done Constraints so far,
and today it's our final episode. And what's the word
for today?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Slap?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Slap? Wait, give me a second because we're holding our mics,
give me a second.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh, okay, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That was a perfect nap.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Really good, really good.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We're we're like moving out. So like I've taken off
all the arms of our studios for the last like
fifteen episodes, whether it was here or in Ohio or something,
We've had to hold our mics and it's different.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My arms are so big and strong now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Honestly, I'm really excited to have the have the things that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Would be really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It would be really nice. Yeah, it would be really nice.
That was back. When we get those backs can be
super nice.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I am really yoked and stokes right now, though I
could I could probably win, Like in an arm wrestling
match with like a really average person.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, my arms are jacked. Arms are absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You guys can't see it because it's a podcast. But
right now, like the sleeves of our shirts, like they're
ripped apart.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. Actually, we can't even keep shirts on because they
keep on ripping whenever we flet. Yeah there another one.
Oh dude, shoot, oh no, there's one. Shoot. Nice shirt.
There's another one. Oh my god, thank god, thank god.
We get so many free shirts from random word Generator.
Not next, thank god. Yeah, okay, no, you can't have any.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Darn my teas. What did you just say, darn my
t shirts? I want them to fix my shirts like darning.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Can I say something? Sometimes you speak like someone from
a whole different world.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I remember that the first things I freached you out
about me. One of the first days that we were
ever on the phone, I was getting a COVID test
back when W acknowledged that COVID existed. We had to
get COVID tests, and I was in this really long line.
So I'm talking on the phone, but then the line
goes really quickly, and so I have to get off
the phone with you because I don't want to be rude.
And I remember I was like, oh, I've got to
let you go. The nice gentleman at the table is
(04:13):
like waiting for me or something like that, and I
hung up, And you're like, my mom talks.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like that, like why do you talk? Like why would
you say that?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And the answer is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It was. It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Sometimes old soul stop working in service in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, but there's a lot of people that are old souls.
It feels like people know what darning means, you know
the movie Split. Yeah, your old soul has a little
more power than other old souls. Like I think your
old colt can literally take over for like one once
every month, it gets it and it gets a shot
and it's a Carnival Barker from the eighteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's the thing like, I know you're right because today
my parents got me a Kramel apple when they came
for graduation. That's like really nice.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I like Carmel apples and I ate it. Today you
came out, You're like, what are you doing. It's like,
I'm eating a Kermel apple. And the first thing I
thought it was like le Carmel apples are really high
rist for watchulism. Yeah yeah, so an ancient soul inside
of me died from a carmel apple for sure, way
back in the day, So you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I already forget what you said like a minute ago.
That threw me off. Darn darn mighty, darn mighty. Yeah,
that's insane, dude, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't even know if that's the appropriate use of darning,
because really, you darned like a sock.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I don't like the stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You know, any of our customers actually get it for real.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Any costume listeners out there, let us know about darning
darns and tell Erica to stop talking like that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Let's make a club div us.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Who darn darn well, you know you could have only
learned this from one person, so shout out to that person,
shout out. Or do you want to get into slap. Yeah,
let's get into slap Let's get into slap.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
URIs dictionary.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, I was gonna ask, I was going to start
it off how but yeah you start? No, No, you
have an opening.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I was doing a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You an opening? No, no, no please. Webster's Dictionary defines darn as.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Okay, So slap unlike constraint. Yeah, we know what it means, right,
but it can't be used in like a few different ways. Right,
So you can slap in the way you hit somebody. Yeah,
And like I think what makes a slap distinct from
just normally hitting somebody is that it makes a sound.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, that slap sound right, it's a good nap.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, we love it, we love it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Then you can say we had a great slap nap
in our final for movement in our fifth semester. Do
you remember that? Or it was a punch nap? Do
you remember they Adam rapped this? It was awesome. Sorry,
that just reminded me. I was thinking of naps and
I was like, seriously, I think you're.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Talking about grads last Supper And I was like, who
did we slap?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, we didn't do that. No, we need to. Oh
maybe if I remember this episode's gonna be dropped so late,
I have a video of it. Maybe I'll post it
in my stories. Yeah, if you're listening and you're like,
I want to see this nap, remind me and I'll
put it in my stories. But that was one of
my favorite stage combat moments of MyoD like it was.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fun because your character you were playing it like you
didn't want to hit me.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, it's really good. Okay, sorry, go on, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So we got good ole fashioned slap and right, you
slap somebody around. But then you can also you slap
kind of like as a verb, like you slap something together.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, So I'm like okay, okay, right, and then there's
like other like you could use it as like an
adjective like oh that slaps, like it's really totally and
in different cultures and stuff like that, different languages, like
it means other things like about like the texture. Yeah whatever.
So but then I'm like, so then I go to
my bookshelf and I'm like, okay, what are like iconic
slaps you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Also call something you could say something's funny, any slapper, right, so.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We'll get into that. I got to my bookshelf and
I'm like, let's look at like all of the plays
and all like the iconic slaps that happen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh yeah, like real slaps.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm like, okay, Like in the opening to dry Land,
like you know, like she's hitting her, but that's still
not a slap. Still don't slap. And I'm also like,
I don't know if I want a season of like
one violent moment in a play.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Eight that all have one thing, one slap in it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And I'm like, actually, that's really weird that my brain
went there.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Do a theatrical you do the theatrical version of that
NBC mini series The Slap Yeah, talking about the window.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I'm like, okay, let me, let me dig a
little deeper, let me do like the Borac move of
like extrapolating a little bit farther. So then I'm like, okay,
Nie slapper, slapstick, slapstick, Yeah, of course, right, Okay, So
I dig into slapstick because I'm like, well, do I
know enough stuff to like want to put a season
together of that? Will that be enough variety? I dig in.
So if you're someone who's like maybe not sure what
(08:20):
I mean by slapstick, I'm going to talk to you
just a quick little bit about it. Okay. So slapstick
is like a physical style of humor, rights really exaggerated.
It's very physical comedy. It's oftentimes really like farcical, and
it's like the type of things that you would see
in comedia it's the type of things you would see
in silent films. Yes, And the reason is classifies that
(08:42):
way is because that's where we get slapsticks from. It
was like Harlei Kino and people like that who had
a slapstick. And what that means again is maybe seeing
a slapstick in like an instrument way, but a slapstick
with comedia or in slapstick physical comedy. Is this like
two pieces of wood put together. So if it looks
like you go behind someone you like slap them in
the ass. It'll make this really really hilarious like slapping sound,
(09:05):
but it's not hurting them on impact as much because
it's that second looser piece of woods slapping the back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Have you seen any middle school band concert during the holidays? Wait?
Is it? No? It's yeah? Oh yeah? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I think it's because we went to the same place.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I honest to god, don't know. It is one of them.
I like that we were both wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's the same time I've ever heard of slapstick other
than in like our committee class and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah,
middle school band concerts. The really excited percussion.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Kid that just goes yes and like the the thing
to remember about slapstick comedy is that like it's visually funny,
and it's visually funny because it was often original originating
at the time of like great, Yes, clowning counts because
again it's visual, so it's something and what do clowns do?
They don't talk. Yeah, so it's something that you're looking
at that's funny. You know. My mom, like we kind
of joke, like a real straight way to her funny
(10:04):
bone is like videos of people falling down horribly.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Shout out your shut out my mom.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And a lot of people would see someone falling and
hurting themselves and think, like that's not funny, that's really serious. Yeah,
that's really bad. We're not built that way now and
most humans aren't. And so seeing someone get pied in
the face or like trip.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Is really great classic clown stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So to you, I bring the Korak Theater season of
Slaps colon that'll leave a mark is crazy. I thought
that was really So my brain does actually start with clowns.
And I'm like, huh, I wonder because I've seen like
clown performance and stuff, and I'm like, I wonder if
(10:42):
there's any like clown plays right, and I'll get into
like history and stuff like that a little bit. But
where do I go. I'm like, I want something fresh.
I want clowns right now. Yeah, I got a MPX
I type in clown clown Now. There's a few things
that pop up, but the one that pops up that
is actually our opener for our season is Clownhouse. It's
on NPX.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's wait, have I heard of that play before?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know if you have.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Who wrote it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It was devised by a company called Beyond the Line
Theater Company. They're based out of Salt Lake, Utah, Okay.
And you can go download it right now, which totally rocks.
It's listed on NPX. It's three clowns, any gender, any ethnicity,
any age, which rocks. And I would pitch that we
actually bring in like the top three most lauded, like
(11:27):
international clowns, because the beautiful thing about clowning is that
a lot of people I know who study clowning, they
go abroad and they do stuff like that because you
don't need to speak the language necessarily to understand that show. Right,
So if you're in Germany or Italy or France or Russia,
wherever you are, if you see clowning, like, you're just
going to engage with it because it's physical. So I
like the idea of bringing in three different international clowns
(11:47):
who maybe don't even speak the same language to work
on this because this was a devised piece by this company.
Their website if you're like, oh, I'm interested in that,
or I'm from Salt Lake, it's Beyond the Line Theatrecompany
dot org. The last thing it looks like they did
was they did a couple shows. I think they were
doing like King Ubu, like last summer.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, they do a lot of devised newerk so that's
who they are. But I downloaded the play. It's only
about ten pages, but the run time is about ninety minutes.
And why is that? Yeah, because it's a script for
a clown performance with no lines. So the way that
it's written is in beats of action.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh right, cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So the premise and i'll just read you, like the
quick description of it here is beet, beep beep. A
blaring alarm wakes three clowns in an infinite room without
an exit. They live the same mundane routine every day.
Their clothes are uncomfortable. Someone is watching them and there's
something that they're hiding from each other. Prepare yourself to
enter the mysterious world of clown House, where everything is
(12:46):
upside down, left is right, and the clowns world spirals
into chaos. The only question is where is the door
and what lies on the other side. It sounds sick,
it's sick, and so it opens with some details about
the characters, about the set. The set is a white
room with no There is a door it, but you
shouldn't be able to see where the door is. And
there's like red you know, all over the walls. There's
(13:07):
red balloons hanging up and inside one of the balloons
is the doorknob that they're going to have to find eventually.
It talks about how the script is written and like
what each thing means, Like they refer to each bullet
point as a theatrical event, and so they try and
give you specificity, but also freedom for those and kind
of like room to improvise and stuff like that. There's
notes on performance and stuff like that about how the
(13:28):
etiquette of clowning. Right, you're not allowed to remove your nose,
you're not allowed to speak or make mouth sounds, you know,
the kind of classic stuff about clowning. I think it
won some awards for the Fringe festival that had been
in But it's divided into sections. So it starts with
this thing called the Awakening and all these clowns, you know,
wake up and they're dealing with each other. It's very
very very cool. There's fun gags. Section two is them
(13:49):
discovering that the audience is watching them, and they're like, like,
who's out there?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And then part their section three is like them escaping
the room and there's like very very cute symbolism in it,
like they are in these uncomfortab clothes, but underneath are
like these really beautiful like rainbow clown clothes and like
they start to slip and it's very very beautiful and lovely.
I want spoiler because you guys can all go read
it right now, but that's how we would start our season.
We would start it with Cloundhouse.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah in the black box, right, black box? Nice?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, So I'm like, okay, strong, start Eric, start yeah,
I really started cool start cool things here for the corrac.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
As executive producer, I approve.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, thank you. But then I'm like Okay, what are
we going to do next?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, I'm like, okay, I talked about clowns. What's that
other slapstick visual? You know, lack of words? Physical comedy?
Charlie Chaplin? Oh ya, and what already exists about Charlie
Chaplin the musical that's right, our first musical.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We're doing Chaplain.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
We're doing Chaplain, the two thousand and six musical. Heck yeah,
second thing in our season.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, that's a killer musical. That's really fun and not
all of people do honest. It's a great poll.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's a really good poll.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So if you don't know who Charlie Chaplin is, that's crazy.
I feel like I don't know. I think maybe my
first exposure was The Dictator. But he had this incredible
crazy life, right he spammed being a child of the
Victorian era era and he died in the late seventies
in Sweden. Okay, he's British. He's known for his immense
(15:09):
like stunts, his physical comedy. I mean this guy, Charlie Chaplin,
who was Heyday and Prime, was in like the twenties
and thirties. Yeah, he's what inspired Johnny Knoxvill's jackass.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Mean, like by that level of physical comedy, who's like
breaking his neck and shit. He also had a thing
for teenage girls, including Eugen O'Neil's daughter Chris. Right, remember
that story when I did?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But amazing physical performer. So what do I do? I
take a spin through on Spotify and I listened to
the musical. It used to be formally titled Limelight The
Story of Charlie Chaplin because Charlie Chaplin had done a
kind of autobiographical deal called Limelight, but now which is
called Chaplin Musical came out in two thousand and six.
It's got musical lyrics by Christopher Curtis and a book
(15:47):
by Curtis and then Thomas Meehan. It premiered on Broadway
in twenty twelve. It was nominated for a bunch of
awards and Tonis and stuff like that. It actually won
Outstanding Sound Design, but mostly like the actors and costumer
design and people like that were nominated. I listened through it,
and what what follows is my understanding of it as
(16:09):
someone who is at an EKR level of understanding musical.
That's right, so I wrote, if I left London, good
overture is a bop, and then I wrote, I really
like how they sing really pretty, but then they drop
in a dialect, and so there's this line where he's like,
he's singing beautifully and then he says what if I fail?
So he's like singing beautifully and he's like, what if
(16:29):
I fail? Which we love, like we love the top
a dialect, really fun dialect. I wrote, Ooh, boom bob,
horns and pleasant razzle, dazzled clopping, it has present clop,
it has really like love.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that's what I wrote. I wrote, I wrote, this
really gets my finger waglin right. It's super super fun.
One of his most famous characters Chaplain was the Tramp,
And there's this There's series and the Tramp Part one
a banger. That that duet that you did with Sheby
where you're like, yeah, very much, that energy, like the
layers of music and then just like old timey fun
(17:06):
like horns and old Hollywood, just another day in Hollywood
as a banger. Yes, life could be like the movies
really really really fun. I think that we should market
it with tramp stamps.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's when the whole cast. We make the cas get transtance.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah that we have this like really hot cast. And
then we instead of doing like a show poster with
all the details, we do like a temporary tattoo. That's like,
it's like chaplain these days temporary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We could do perman tattoos and all.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The the interns.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So the interns with the most gorgeous backs will get
this lower back tattoo, permanent tattoo, and then we'll use
that as the poster.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's sick, okay, perfect, it'll be pumped.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, so we're doing that. Sorry, tattoos don't hurt that bad,
just a little bad.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Is your bucket full?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I feel so bad about that joke. That was like
one of the foul things I've ever said. Also, it's
really funny because we're banking these if anyone has a
really adverse reaction, like while I was an intern and
like I actually really hate that. You're just don't listen
to the summer season.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Maybe don't listen to we continue the bit.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So we're doing chaplain next. Okay, now, okay, we did
a musical, been there, done that. What are we going
to do next? Wait?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
How many shows do you have this season? Eight?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What are we?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Three? Were kind of events? Yeah? This is three okay three?
What do we know about slapstick? It's also farcical? So yeah,
we're just doing it. We're doing noises off.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh that's smart.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Great, So we're doing noises off. Uh huh, that's by
yeah Michael Frown nineteen eighty two fars I don't really
think I need to go into detail about this.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You don't if you don't know one of the most
famous farces I think ever made.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, google it. But I do think it would be
fun to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get that and like the play that goes wrong and
then like now like maybe Clue or like the cottage
like something.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, I think it would be fun to bring in
like big celebrity names and stuff like that, just like
smart people, because we can afford it. Okay, cool, been,
they've done that. Now we talked about chaplain. Who else
do we love from that silent film era?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know who?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You're right buster, Keaton, you're right buster. Thank you for
saying that.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Wait, let's take it back.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You took the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You to just a edit this. Okay, I'm not gonna
edit it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I think Buster Keaton.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Thank you. Justin you took the words gun out of
my mouth. Buster k So I really like Buster Keaton,
Buster Keyton. You just like saying Buster Keaton, don't you
say it one more time?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's their key and mister, that's their key.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Mister Keaton.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I hardly know where bust her key Tin.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh my, oh my, okay, So what we're gonna do? Yeah,
because do you know what Buster he's famous for, like
sound films, much in the way that Chaplin was right justin.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Edited this out? Yeah, Buster Kean, I know him. He
is really answered sent film. It's kind of like chaplain exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, there's the thing that people do.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And wait, how funny would it be if I edited
this show to make me sound really so whenever you
said stuff, I would be like, justing, edit this out
and then I'd repeat something you said. That's just the
dynamic we have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It costs you so much time.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's so funny. That's so funny to be no, okaying
Buster Keyton.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, So Buster Keaton?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Is there a player musical with Buster Keaton?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, why isn't there?
I try to look for. Oh, I can't find one,
and I'm like, that's kind of weird. I will also
say I made a note here. You know how public
domain rocks where it's like seventy five, two hundred, twenty
years depending on you know whatever. All of those Chaplain
films are like twenties, which means all of that stuff
is going to be entering public domain, as will Buster years. Yeah,
the next ten to fifteen years, we're coming up on
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like one hundred years of cinema, Yeah, which means some
of those ogs will become public.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Here's the thing, there's going to be a killer silent
film play in the next like five years. I'm so pumped.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, Okay, So Buster Keaton films, they're really really great.
My sister and my mom likes to go see them
together when they're in the city. In Minneapolis, we had
a place called Trilon Cinema and they would do this
really cool thing. I think it's not a them thing.
I think a lot of people do this, but you'll
screen Buster Keaton silent films and sometimes there's like, you know,
orchestra under them, but they take the sound out and
instead they have live scoring with bands.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, that's sick.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So there was like a series. It was like Jazz
Buster Keaton, and so jazz bands would play like in
front of the screen. So while because it's our theater company,
because I do what I want and it's the season
of slow app that'll eave a mark, We're gonna do
a Buster Keaton screening series where we're going to bring
in live local bands of all sorts of different genres.
So night by Day I do be a different movie
with a different genre of local band. And also I
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just want to point out, like Buster Keaton is hot
in the way that he has weird eyes. I wrote
that down, so I'm gonna get setting it. But we're
gonna in our proscenium theater. We're gonna drop down. We're
gonna drop down the gorgeous grand drape, the other grand drape.
We're gonna put a screen in front of that. We're
gonna have patron audience in the house, and then we'll
have the bands in our orchestra pit.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, and we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Be selling popcorn and you can eat it in the theater.
We're also gonna have diet coke and diet pepsi products.
But all the straws are twizzlers.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Wait, why do you say diet coke and diet pepsi products?
You mean coke and pepsi products.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We're gonna have both, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But it's coke, coke and pepsi companies.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
But I drink diet, and the idea that I could
have both, I like.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
The idea that you can only you can get both
die coke and die pepsi, but you can't get anything else.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
All the beverages diet, but all the twizzls are a straws.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All the twidlers are straws, and there's a week between
them and thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay, so that's that's that. So it's not technically a
perform but it's a music performance and it's my theater
and it's yeah. So that's number four. So you're like Erica,
You've done clowns, you've done silent film, you've done farce. Okay,
what's next?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What's next?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're gonna do the servative two masters. Whoa, and we're
gonna bring in Bill Erwin to direct it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
We're gonna also stunt cast this one with a bunch
of comics. Oh that's fun, and it's gonna be really
really great.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Like really good physical comics. Do you have people that
you'd want Mmm, I.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Think it'd be kind of funny to like put Bo
Burnham in it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That would be really that's a great pot.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, just just like really kind of like a Laker
Zendeia thing. Yeah, yeah, just really jack it up with
people conservative to masters. If it isn't on your radar,
it's very popular. It's on playscripts. No, it's on dramatists. Yeah,
it's dramatists. It's the translation and adaptation that's by Jeffrey Hatcher, yeah,
and Paalo Ameilia Landi. But it was originally like a
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when you do comedia scenes, there's not like a play
that you would follow. It's more of like a prompt,
like a little scene or like a little situation. So
I think their originator of this one is Carlo Goldani.
The story for this one is, I guess, like the
synopsis on DPS is across between traditional Italian commedia and
postmodern vaudeville, which is also very physical.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Great.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The new version of gold Donnie's classic pits the mad
cap servant Truffle Dino against masters mistresses Lovers, Lawyers, and
twenty seven plates of meatballs. Imagine a Bob Hope or
Woody Allen comedy written by Monty Python and performed with
the physical brava of Chaplain or Keaton, with places in
the script for ad libs and audience participation. So this
is one that's still for adults. And I say that
(23:50):
because that'll come back into mind for number seven. Now,
let's talk about number six.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay, let's talk about it. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Have you ever heard of the Power Slap League?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No? Oh wait? Is that the thing where the people
slap each other?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Slap fighting championship.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Slop fighting championships. Yeah, I have seen that.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They're real.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, I know, I've seen them on Snapchat.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
They're real. And I would like to develop a new.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Script with you, so stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The six piece in our season is a script that
we're co writing. Okay, you're already signed on to it.
Don't worry, got it?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh sick?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I mean about it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I'm getting paid a lot of money, right, Yeah, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think five of the six mil we set aside good.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And that's what I thought. That is money thought, and
that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We're gonna write an original slat Fighting Championship play. And
I don't know if you figured it out by now,
because we're best friends, but the word slaps is a
palindrume four pals, So the play is gonna be called
slap Pals slat Pals, and it's gonna be like kind
of a Challengers vibe. But the important thing about this
(24:49):
is we're gonna develop play, you and me, and it'll
be really fun, and we're gonna study. We're gonna go, like,
you know, deal with these people, learn what they learn.
If if you don't know what I'm talking about, watch
Slap Fighting Championship videos. It's quite tense. I think it's
like perfect rounds for research and writing a play. Absolutely,
but because it is actually, weirdly enough, only the only
violent pieces in my season, the Correct Theater is going
(25:10):
to be sponsoring concurrent free stage combat courses and certifications
on our premises, so anyone can show up and attend
those classes for free get their shirts, because that's a
huge economic barrier to most performers. So if you're interested
in becoming an actor combatant, that's what I would be
doing in this world where I have billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But I do want people to know that we will
be also testing out real slabs, but only on our interns.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah. Good, and that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Here's the thing. It's nice to have the kind of
a bunch of like like you know, like football has,
like those dummies you can tackle. Yeah, that's like, yeah,
we have that too. What did you call them?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Intern Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Sorry yeah, interns? Wait?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh so that's why we call them dummies.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Is your bucket falls?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Our bucket fall?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you don't like this, pickus. I'm really sure we're
baking all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's been really fun that it's kind of like been
Broadway calls but then.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Out of us. Okay, so wait, sorry, wait, somebody coming
in right now? Oh no, guys, necessarily we're in the
summer season. You're working, Oh Broadway.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh I'm sorry, I left the cand of the map
for Broadway. Oh come on, they keep flapping Broadway. Heard
it the s flap Broadway? Broadway.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Please, they're spanking me.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh, Broadway have perfectly good interns for that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh they're walking. Oh yeah, they're gonna go. Yeah, they're going.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That was really scary when you're scared.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I was scared cheeks, all four of them.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I know, I wasn't gonna say, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So we're doing so if we're writing a power slapping.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Flat pals, flat Pals, that's fun.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I was able to work in a palin drum, you know,
I like that. Okay, So that was number six. So
let's recap so far. We've got clown House, Chaplain, the
musical Noises Off, Yeah, the Buster Heaton screening series, The
Servant of Two Masters, our original slat Fighting Championship play
Slat Pals with concurrent artistic education.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes with two more right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Now seven? Yeah, my parents came for graduation. We were
all eaten with your parents, with Liz, everybody who's there.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, Ali.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Shut out actually hit both at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I accidentally they were called We shouted them out.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Of the same I don't know could do that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Isn't that fun? Wait? That sounded kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That sounds kind of if you're a DJ, you know that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
We just found the sick Maybe mashed that one up
for us. We just found the sickest.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Be Wait a minute, did you just write the song
shout out?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Shout Out?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Soon? Now in the in the Year of Our Lord
twenty twenty four, when you at this dinner table at
a brewery asked my mom, oh, like, what's your favorite
show you've ever seen? Erica?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And oh, yeah, I made everybody else.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I made everybody show came to mind for them.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh my gosh, they dude, it was crazy. Okay, can
we talk about this story a second. Yeah, because we
were on the table and my parents said, like, a,
oh I did like a random Neil Simon play or
like a musical that they liked both, and like everybody
was saying different things. Your parents both said some comedian
dolar tape piece you did in high school in high school,
which one my parents would have hated. Two my high
(28:13):
school would have never done. Your parents would like that
ury most parents would. No, My parents like the most
basic stuff in the world. The fact that your parents
like this piece is so cool to me. It's just
like they're so they actually like watch understand it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Out of love for my parents. Because it's the season
of Slaps, were putting that play in the season. So
Servant of Two Masters is the adult commedia play The
Love of Three Oranges by Hillary day Piano is gonna
be our youth series. We're gonna do middle school to
high school age actors for that one.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We're not are the interns allowed to.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Know for the kids, it's for real actors. It's on
play scripts.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
We do his show for high schoolers. We have eight
hundred of them around. We don't even let them audition.
We have a thing on the audition she is are
you an intern? When the mark yes, they're immediately not seen.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, they get dragged off, they gets put over their heads. Yeah.
So this is a comedy I actually did in high school,
and I did. I did actually write down too. I said,
I said, everyone I went to high school with is
allowed to reprise their roles. And the interns are fuming.
They're pissed about it. All four hundred because I didn't
(29:23):
realize we had eight hundred that at the time of writing.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That they all left. The four hundred left and we
asked them the double.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Day all dead exactly. The Love of Three Oranges. I'm
not gonna lie. I haven't read this since I was
a senior in high school, but it's on playscripts. It
was a really fun time. It's a massive cast. You
got eight women, eight men, five any you can have
up to forty actors, right, it gets produced all the time.
The synopsis on here is forget all your dusty misconceptions
about the traditions of Comitia del art as. The Love
of Three Oranges, based on a scene a scenario by
(29:50):
Carlo Gazzi provides a wild, racous, slapstick comedy that is
completely retooled and revised for today's audiences. So it's really great.
It's a love story, it's silly, it's goofy. I ended
up playing like the clown, essentially the La Trebledino type. Yeah,
it was super fun. My mom said, my costume it
was cute. So that's going to be number seven, now
number eight, number eight, our closer. It's going to be
(30:11):
an event.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Our closer for the summer season too, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And the and the last one of our our season
of slaps. Yeah, we started with clowns, We're gonna end
with clowns. But what clowns do we know? From way,
way way back in time.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Justin edit the answer and read about here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You're right, justin Shakespeare's fools.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Perfect, go ahead and pull back. Well, I mean, if
you had to think about clowns from the way back time,
I would think about Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Fool.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I think with shakespeare Fools. So our final one, our
final season. I couldn't pick one. I thought about it.
We're doing a new event I'm calling fools Play. It's
our Shakespeare in the Park. It's a cabaret of Shakespeare's
best clowns.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's so fine.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, so we're gonna partner with like really really cool
costume designers to do really over the top awesome clown costumes. Yeah,
for actors who are doing like the best most iconic
monologues of Shakespeare's different clowns, fools, all those types. There's
a lot of shakespeare characters who are like deemed the
clown or fool of a script, but they're not maybe
called clown or whatever. Right, you've got your dog berries
(31:09):
and your festies and your fall steps, write anyone, just
your vibes. We're just gonna do a night of monologues
of all of those characters. We're doing completely open like
casting consideration, all ages, all genders, all sorts of stuff.
And that's how we're going to close out the season. Slaps.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That's freaking sick. Yeah, give me a refresh on the
whole season.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, we had Clownhouse, actual clowns, Chaplain, the two thousand
and six musical Noises off the Buster Keaton screening series
with Twizzler Straws, The Servant of Two Masters with potentially
Bill Orwin and bumb Burdam. The Original Slap Fighting Championship
plays slap Pals because Palin drums. Well, only interns get hit,
and we offer classes in stage combat, The Love the
(31:50):
Three Oranges for my parents. Maybe it's a high school
renion unclear, And then fools play a caparet of Shakespeare's
best clowns.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's sick. Well, that's really really fine. That's a good season.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Can I tack something on to the end of this
summer season Selections series. As you guys know, I just
came into a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Five million collaboration.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, I want to announce that I'm officially starting the
Internship Scholarship Fund.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now, for short years we haven't given any money to
the interns.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's been beautiful.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
It's been a tough, beautiful. It's been a beautiful for us,
bad for them. Yeah, I'm taking all five million dollars
that I've made. I'm putting it into a big, big circle,
a big or a big orb, a big orb or
a big money orb, and I'm creating something called the
Slap Games, similar to the Squid Games, but it's with
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the eight hundred interns. One of them will win a
percentage that has not been decided of my five million
dollars undisclosed percentage. All of them will not. And I
will say, uh, if I were to split, I give
them the option if I want to split it between
eight eight hundred ways. Each of them. We get six thousand,
two hundred and fifty dollars, but I don't give them
(33:08):
that option. Okay, we start the squid Games and as
the final closer of this season, all the entrants kill
each other until there's one left and they get eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
That's so generous, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But they get to swing, they get to understudy a
swing role in the next season. We do okay, great,
but they still only get eighty bucks for that too.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well that's pre tax.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So here's the thing. Don't ever say we didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Do anything like guys sixty seven exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Sixty seven bucks, sixty six bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Don't spend it all in one place exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I can't believe that we're philanthropist too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's a good season. That was really fun, fun.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That's a really fun summer season.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, we're doing a playdown when we play out, so.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And then Sally about season three. The play is going
to be the last episode we record so in Morgantown,
and that by the time you hear the season three announcement,
we're going to be back together again. Baby changed, lives
will have changed, so it'll be very different.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Friendship remains exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We're really really excited. Thank you so much for listening
to the episode. Follow us on Instagram at actual arakacoon
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Please tell your friends about it. Let people know all
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Go check out Kill the Bird. You can also make
sure you're going to read and see theater. It's right
now towards the end of the summer seasons, but it's
probably it's late August, so it's the start of a
lot of regional theater seasons. To make sure you're oh
my gosh, I can't play. This episode's coming out in
late August. But but yeah, make sure you're going to
see theater, you're reading new plays, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
And we hope you guys have had a wonderful summer.
We can't wait to give you guys a playto and
hop back into season three. And I'm gonna end this
episode the way I end every episode by look at
my friend on our big blue and saying Eric Coccoon,
I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Justin Borak, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Uh uh
Hey, here's the theme song, right, Hey, welcome to play
to Zee.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It was really good. Honestly, there's something about it that
I laughing.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey, everybody, welcome to the see I'm your co host,
Justin Borak. I'm your co host Eric, and welcome to
the fourth and final episode of the summer season selection.
What it is the last one? It is? Yeah, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sorry, I'm laughing. I thought he was doing a bit
before we started singing.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
When we started, actually kind of past.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I didn't sing because I thought for sure he was
joking to try and get me to sing alone.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I said, you better sing with me. I said, let's
do this because I like the song. I wanted to
start the episode by singing this bit. And you didn't
sing with me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I fully thought you were trying to goof me. Oh
that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh yeah, it's super funny.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome to the last episode, yeah of the summers.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, welcome to the last episode. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm really good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm okay, it's only okay, I'm only okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know who what is saying? What? Eight hundred in
terms dying for the spot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Dang, we have eight hundred this season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's so stinky.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
If you're wondering what this is our summer this is
our summer season before we get into season three, which
is just a couple of weeks away. Everybody get excited
the next actually next episode. This is a playout. But
very soon you're gonna hear what season three is, and
it's gonna be very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're gonna like it a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We think you're gonna like it a lot. But there's
the last episode of the summer season selection series, Society Spectacular. Basically,
both Eric and I pulled up a couple of words
on randomword generator dot net. There's one of our biggest sponsors,
our biggest corporate sponsor. It's crazy that you're cool doing
that bit as much as you want, but you won't
(01:55):
sing a song with me for four because.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I thought a bit was that you weren't gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It talking about I said, same with me. You can't
trust me. You can't trust me.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Like that that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I do not. I've never done a bit like that.
I've never done a bit to goose on you or
you're well being. I would never. I'm offended. I'm offended, dumb,
I'm offended she's been lost for years. Okay, So the
point of this, though, is that we pulled up a
couple of words on random word generator, we chose the
one that we liked, and we based a theater season
around it at our fictional theater, the Correct. Yes, this
(02:28):
is the final one. We've done a couple week I
did Reserve and Television Erica has done Constraints so far,
and today it's our final episode. And what's the word
for today?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Slap?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Slap? Wait, give me a second because we're holding our mics,
give me a second.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh, okay, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That was a perfect nap.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Really good, really good.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We're we're like moving out. So like I've taken off
all the arms of our studios for the last like
fifteen episodes, whether it was here or in Ohio or something,
We've had to hold our mics and it's different.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My arms are so big and strong now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Honestly, I'm really excited to have the have the things that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Would be really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It would be really nice. Yeah, it would be really nice.
That was back. When we get those backs can be
super nice.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I am really yoked and stokes right now, though I
could I could probably win, Like in an arm wrestling
match with like a really average person.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, my arms are jacked. Arms are absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You guys can't see it because it's a podcast. But
right now, like the sleeves of our shirts, like they're
ripped apart.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. Actually, we can't even keep shirts on because they
keep on ripping whenever we flet. Yeah there another one.
Oh dude, shoot, oh no, there's one. Shoot. Nice shirt.
There's another one. Oh my god, thank god, thank god.
We get so many free shirts from random word Generator.
Not next, thank god. Yeah, okay, no, you can't have any.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Darn my teas. What did you just say, darn my
t shirts? I want them to fix my shirts like darning.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Can I say something? Sometimes you speak like someone from
a whole different world.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I remember that the first things I freached you out
about me. One of the first days that we were
ever on the phone, I was getting a COVID test
back when W acknowledged that COVID existed. We had to
get COVID tests, and I was in this really long line.
So I'm talking on the phone, but then the line
goes really quickly, and so I have to get off
the phone with you because I don't want to be rude.
And I remember I was like, oh, I've got to
let you go. The nice gentleman at the table is
(04:13):
like waiting for me or something like that, and I
hung up, And you're like, my mom talks.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like that, like why do you talk? Like why would
you say that?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And the answer is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It was. It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Sometimes old soul stop working in service in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, but there's a lot of people that are old souls.
It feels like people know what darning means, you know
the movie Split. Yeah, your old soul has a little
more power than other old souls. Like I think your
old colt can literally take over for like one once
every month, it gets it and it gets a shot
and it's a Carnival Barker from the eighteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's the thing like, I know you're right because today
my parents got me a Kramel apple when they came
for graduation. That's like really nice.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I like Carmel apples and I ate it. Today you
came out, You're like, what are you doing. It's like,
I'm eating a Kermel apple. And the first thing I
thought it was like le Carmel apples are really high
rist for watchulism. Yeah yeah, so an ancient soul inside
of me died from a carmel apple for sure, way
back in the day, So you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I already forget what you said like a minute ago.
That threw me off. Darn darn mighty, darn mighty. Yeah,
that's insane, dude, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't even know if that's the appropriate use of darning,
because really, you darned like a sock.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I don't like the stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You know, any of our customers actually get it for real.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Any costume listeners out there, let us know about darning
darns and tell Erica to stop talking like that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Let's make a club div us.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Who darn darn well, you know you could have only
learned this from one person, so shout out to that person,
shout out. Or do you want to get into slap. Yeah,
let's get into slap Let's get into slap.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
URIs dictionary.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, I was gonna ask, I was going to start
it off how but yeah you start? No, No, you
have an opening.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I was doing a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You an opening? No, no, no please. Webster's Dictionary defines darn as.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Okay, So slap unlike constraint. Yeah, we know what it means, right,
but it can't be used in like a few different ways. Right,
So you can slap in the way you hit somebody. Yeah,
And like I think what makes a slap distinct from
just normally hitting somebody is that it makes a sound.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, that slap sound right, it's a good nap.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, we love it, we love it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Then you can say we had a great slap nap
in our final for movement in our fifth semester. Do
you remember that? Or it was a punch nap? Do
you remember they Adam rapped this? It was awesome. Sorry,
that just reminded me. I was thinking of naps and
I was like, seriously, I think you're.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Talking about grads last Supper And I was like, who
did we slap?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, we didn't do that. No, we need to. Oh
maybe if I remember this episode's gonna be dropped so late,
I have a video of it. Maybe I'll post it
in my stories. Yeah, if you're listening and you're like,
I want to see this nap, remind me and I'll
put it in my stories. But that was one of
my favorite stage combat moments of MyoD like it was.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Fun because your character you were playing it like you
didn't want to hit me.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, it's really good. Okay, sorry, go on, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So we got good ole fashioned slap and right, you
slap somebody around. But then you can also you slap
kind of like as a verb, like you slap something together.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, So I'm like okay, okay, right, and then there's
like other like you could use it as like an
adjective like oh that slaps, like it's really totally and
in different cultures and stuff like that, different languages, like
it means other things like about like the texture. Yeah whatever.
So but then I'm like, so then I go to
my bookshelf and I'm like, okay, what are like iconic
slaps you.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Also call something you could say something's funny, any slapper, right, so.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We'll get into that. I got to my bookshelf and
I'm like, let's look at like all of the plays
and all like the iconic slaps that happen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh yeah, like real slaps.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm like, okay, Like in the opening to dry Land,
like you know, like she's hitting her, but that's still
not a slap. Still don't slap. And I'm also like,
I don't know if I want a season of like
one violent moment in a play.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Eight that all have one thing, one slap in it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And I'm like, actually, that's really weird that my brain
went there.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Do a theatrical you do the theatrical version of that
NBC mini series The Slap Yeah, talking about the window.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I'm like, okay, let me, let me dig a
little deeper, let me do like the Borac move of
like extrapolating a little bit farther. So then I'm like, okay,
Nie slapper, slapstick, slapstick, Yeah, of course, right, Okay, So
I dig into slapstick because I'm like, well, do I
know enough stuff to like want to put a season
together of that? Will that be enough variety? I dig in.
So if you're someone who's like maybe not sure what
(08:20):
I mean by slapstick, I'm going to talk to you
just a quick little bit about it. Okay. So slapstick
is like a physical style of humor, rights really exaggerated.
It's very physical comedy. It's oftentimes really like farcical, and
it's like the type of things that you would see
in comedia it's the type of things you would see
in silent films. Yes, And the reason is classifies that
(08:42):
way is because that's where we get slapsticks from. It
was like Harlei Kino and people like that who had
a slapstick. And what that means again is maybe seeing
a slapstick in like an instrument way, but a slapstick
with comedia or in slapstick physical comedy. Is this like
two pieces of wood put together. So if it looks
like you go behind someone you like slap them in
the ass. It'll make this really really hilarious like slapping sound,
(09:05):
but it's not hurting them on impact as much because
it's that second looser piece of woods slapping the back.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Have you seen any middle school band concert during the holidays? Wait?
Is it? No? It's yeah? Oh yeah? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I think it's because we went to the same place.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I honest to god, don't know. It is one of them.
I like that we were both wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's the same time I've ever heard of slapstick other
than in like our committee class and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah,
middle school band concerts. The really excited percussion.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Kid that just goes yes and like the the thing
to remember about slapstick comedy is that like it's visually funny,
and it's visually funny because it was often original originating
at the time of like great, Yes, clowning counts because
again it's visual, so it's something and what do clowns do?
They don't talk. Yeah, so it's something that you're looking
at that's funny. You know. My mom, like we kind
of joke, like a real straight way to her funny
(10:04):
bone is like videos of people falling down horribly.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Shout out your shut out my mom.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And a lot of people would see someone falling and
hurting themselves and think, like that's not funny, that's really serious. Yeah,
that's really bad. We're not built that way now and
most humans aren't. And so seeing someone get pied in
the face or like trip.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Is really great classic clown stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So to you, I bring the Korak Theater season of
Slaps colon that'll leave a mark is crazy. I thought
that was really So my brain does actually start with clowns.
And I'm like, huh, I wonder because I've seen like
clown performance and stuff, and I'm like, I wonder if
(10:42):
there's any like clown plays right, and I'll get into
like history and stuff like that a little bit. But
where do I go. I'm like, I want something fresh.
I want clowns right now. Yeah, I got a MPX
I type in clown clown Now. There's a few things
that pop up, but the one that pops up that
is actually our opener for our season is Clownhouse. It's
on NPX.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's wait, have I heard of that play before?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know if you have.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Who wrote it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It was devised by a company called Beyond the Line
Theater Company. They're based out of Salt Lake, Utah, Okay.
And you can go download it right now, which totally rocks.
It's listed on NPX. It's three clowns, any gender, any ethnicity,
any age, which rocks. And I would pitch that we
actually bring in like the top three most lauded, like
(11:27):
international clowns, because the beautiful thing about clowning is that
a lot of people I know who study clowning, they
go abroad and they do stuff like that because you
don't need to speak the language necessarily to understand that show. Right,
So if you're in Germany or Italy or France or Russia,
wherever you are, if you see clowning, like, you're just
going to engage with it because it's physical. So I
like the idea of bringing in three different international clowns
(11:47):
who maybe don't even speak the same language to work
on this because this was a devised piece by this company.
Their website if you're like, oh, I'm interested in that,
or I'm from Salt Lake, it's Beyond the Line Theatrecompany
dot org. The last thing it looks like they did
was they did a couple shows. I think they were
doing like King Ubu, like last summer.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, they do a lot of devised newerk so that's
who they are. But I downloaded the play. It's only
about ten pages, but the run time is about ninety minutes.
And why is that? Yeah, because it's a script for
a clown performance with no lines. So the way that
it's written is in beats of action.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh right, cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So the premise and i'll just read you, like the
quick description of it here is beet, beep beep. A
blaring alarm wakes three clowns in an infinite room without
an exit. They live the same mundane routine every day.
Their clothes are uncomfortable. Someone is watching them and there's
something that they're hiding from each other. Prepare yourself to
enter the mysterious world of clown House, where everything is
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upside down, left is right, and the clowns world spirals
into chaos. The only question is where is the door
and what lies on the other side. It sounds sick,
it's sick, and so it opens with some details about
the characters, about the set. The set is a white
room with no There is a door it, but you
shouldn't be able to see where the door is. And
there's like red you know, all over the walls. There's
(13:07):
red balloons hanging up and inside one of the balloons
is the doorknob that they're going to have to find eventually.
It talks about how the script is written and like
what each thing means, Like they refer to each bullet
point as a theatrical event, and so they try and
give you specificity, but also freedom for those and kind
of like room to improvise and stuff like that. There's
notes on performance and stuff like that about how the
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etiquette of clowning. Right, you're not allowed to remove your nose,
you're not allowed to speak or make mouth sounds, you know,
the kind of classic stuff about clowning. I think it
won some awards for the Fringe festival that had been
in But it's divided into sections. So it starts with
this thing called the Awakening and all these clowns, you know,
wake up and they're dealing with each other. It's very
very very cool. There's fun gags. Section two is them
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discovering that the audience is watching them, and they're like, like,
who's out there?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And then part their section three is like them escaping
the room and there's like very very cute symbolism in it,
like they are in these uncomfortab clothes, but underneath are
like these really beautiful like rainbow clown clothes and like
they start to slip and it's very very beautiful and lovely.
I want spoiler because you guys can all go read
it right now, but that's how we would start our season.
We would start it with Cloundhouse.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah in the black box, right, black box? Nice?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, So I'm like, okay, strong, start Eric, start yeah,
I really started cool start cool things here for the corrac.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
As executive producer, I approve.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, thank you. But then I'm like Okay, what are
we going to do next?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, I'm like, okay, I talked about clowns. What's that
other slapstick visual? You know, lack of words? Physical comedy?
Charlie Chaplin? Oh ya, and what already exists about Charlie
Chaplin the musical that's right, our first musical.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We're doing Chaplain.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
We're doing Chaplain, the two thousand and six musical. Heck yeah,
second thing in our season.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay, that's a killer musical. That's really fun and not
all of people do honest. It's a great poll.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's a really good poll.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So if you don't know who Charlie Chaplin is, that's crazy.
I feel like I don't know. I think maybe my
first exposure was The Dictator. But he had this incredible
crazy life, right he spammed being a child of the
Victorian era era and he died in the late seventies
in Sweden. Okay, he's British. He's known for his immense
(15:09):
like stunts, his physical comedy. I mean this guy, Charlie Chaplin,
who was Heyday and Prime, was in like the twenties
and thirties. Yeah, he's what inspired Johnny Knoxvill's jackass.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Mean, like by that level of physical comedy, who's like
breaking his neck and shit. He also had a thing
for teenage girls, including Eugen O'Neil's daughter Chris. Right, remember
that story when I did?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But amazing physical performer. So what do I do? I
take a spin through on Spotify and I listened to
the musical. It used to be formally titled Limelight The
Story of Charlie Chaplin because Charlie Chaplin had done a
kind of autobiographical deal called Limelight, but now which is
called Chaplin Musical came out in two thousand and six.
It's got musical lyrics by Christopher Curtis and a book
(15:47):
by Curtis and then Thomas Meehan. It premiered on Broadway
in twenty twelve. It was nominated for a bunch of
awards and Tonis and stuff like that. It actually won
Outstanding Sound Design, but mostly like the actors and costumer
design and people like that were nominated. I listened through it,
and what what follows is my understanding of it as
(16:09):
someone who is at an EKR level of understanding musical.
That's right, so I wrote, if I left London, good
overture is a bop, and then I wrote, I really
like how they sing really pretty, but then they drop
in a dialect, and so there's this line where he's like,
he's singing beautifully and then he says what if I fail?
So he's like singing beautifully and he's like, what if
(16:29):
I fail? Which we love, like we love the top
a dialect, really fun dialect. I wrote, Ooh, boom bob,
horns and pleasant razzle, dazzled clopping, it has present clop,
it has really like love.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that's what I wrote. I wrote, I wrote, this
really gets my finger waglin right. It's super super fun.
One of his most famous characters Chaplain was the Tramp,
And there's this There's series and the Tramp Part one
a banger. That that duet that you did with Sheby
where you're like, yeah, very much, that energy, like the
layers of music and then just like old timey fun
(17:06):
like horns and old Hollywood, just another day in Hollywood
as a banger. Yes, life could be like the movies
really really really fun. I think that we should market
it with tramp stamps.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's when the whole cast. We make the cas get transtance.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah that we have this like really hot cast. And
then we instead of doing like a show poster with
all the details, we do like a temporary tattoo. That's like,
it's like chaplain these days temporary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We could do perman tattoos and all.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The the interns.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So the interns with the most gorgeous backs will get
this lower back tattoo, permanent tattoo, and then we'll use
that as the poster.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's sick, okay, perfect, it'll be pumped.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, so we're doing that. Sorry, tattoos don't hurt that bad,
just a little bad.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Is your bucket full?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I feel so bad about that joke. That was like
one of the foul things I've ever said. Also, it's
really funny because we're banking these if anyone has a
really adverse reaction, like while I was an intern and
like I actually really hate that. You're just don't listen
to the summer season.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Maybe don't listen to we continue the bit.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So we're doing chaplain next. Okay, now, okay, we did
a musical, been there, done that. What are we going
to do next? Wait?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
How many shows do you have this season? Eight?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What are we?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Three? Were kind of events? Yeah? This is three okay three?
What do we know about slapstick? It's also farcical? So yeah,
we're just doing it. We're doing noises off.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh that's smart.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Great, So we're doing noises off. Uh huh, that's by
yeah Michael Frown nineteen eighty two fars I don't really
think I need to go into detail about this.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You don't if you don't know one of the most
famous farces I think ever made.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, google it. But I do think it would be
fun to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get that and like the play that goes wrong and
then like now like maybe Clue or like the cottage
like something.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, I think it would be fun to bring in
like big celebrity names and stuff like that, just like
smart people, because we can afford it. Okay, cool, been,
they've done that. Now we talked about chaplain. Who else
do we love from that silent film era?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know who?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You're right buster, Keaton, you're right buster. Thank you for
saying that.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Wait, let's take it back.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You took the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You to just a edit this. Okay, I'm not gonna
edit it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I think Buster Keaton.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Thank you. Justin you took the words gun out of
my mouth. Buster k So I really like Buster Keaton,
Buster Keyton. You just like saying Buster Keaton, don't you
say it one more time?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's their key and mister, that's their key.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Mister Keaton.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I hardly know where bust her key Tin.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh my, oh my, okay, So what we're gonna do? Yeah,
because do you know what Buster he's famous for, like
sound films, much in the way that Chaplin was right justin.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Edited this out? Yeah, Buster Kean, I know him. He
is really answered sent film. It's kind of like chaplain exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, there's the thing that people do.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And wait, how funny would it be if I edited
this show to make me sound really so whenever you
said stuff, I would be like, justing, edit this out
and then I'd repeat something you said. That's just the
dynamic we have.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It costs you so much time.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's so funny. That's so funny to be no, okaying
Buster Keyton.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, So Buster Keaton?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Is there a player musical with Buster Keaton?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, why isn't there?
I try to look for. Oh, I can't find one,
and I'm like, that's kind of weird. I will also
say I made a note here. You know how public
domain rocks where it's like seventy five, two hundred, twenty
years depending on you know whatever. All of those Chaplain
films are like twenties, which means all of that stuff
is going to be entering public domain, as will Buster years. Yeah,
the next ten to fifteen years, we're coming up on
(20:17):
like one hundred years of cinema, Yeah, which means some
of those ogs will become public.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Here's the thing, there's going to be a killer silent
film play in the next like five years. I'm so pumped.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, Okay, So Buster Keaton films, they're really really great.
My sister and my mom likes to go see them
together when they're in the city. In Minneapolis, we had
a place called Trilon Cinema and they would do this
really cool thing. I think it's not a them thing.
I think a lot of people do this, but you'll
screen Buster Keaton silent films and sometimes there's like, you know,
orchestra under them, but they take the sound out and
instead they have live scoring with bands.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, that's sick.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So there was like a series. It was like Jazz
Buster Keaton, and so jazz bands would play like in
front of the screen. So while because it's our theater company,
because I do what I want and it's the season
of slow app that'll eave a mark, We're gonna do
a Buster Keaton screening series where we're going to bring
in live local bands of all sorts of different genres.
So night by Day I do be a different movie
with a different genre of local band. And also I
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just want to point out, like Buster Keaton is hot
in the way that he has weird eyes. I wrote
that down, so I'm gonna get setting it. But we're
gonna in our proscenium theater. We're gonna drop down. We're
gonna drop down the gorgeous grand drape, the other grand drape.
We're gonna put a screen in front of that. We're
gonna have patron audience in the house, and then we'll
have the bands in our orchestra pit.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, and we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Be selling popcorn and you can eat it in the theater.
We're also gonna have diet coke and diet pepsi products.
But all the straws are twizzlers.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Wait, why do you say diet coke and diet pepsi products?
You mean coke and pepsi products.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We're gonna have both, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But it's coke, coke and pepsi companies.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
But I drink diet, and the idea that I could
have both, I like.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
The idea that you can only you can get both
die coke and die pepsi, but you can't get anything else.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
All the beverages diet, but all the twizzls are a straws.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All the twidlers are straws, and there's a week between
them and thank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay, so that's that's that. So it's not technically a
perform but it's a music performance and it's my theater
and it's yeah. So that's number four. So you're like Erica,
You've done clowns, you've done silent film, you've done farce. Okay,
what's next?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
What's next?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're gonna do the servative two masters. Whoa, and we're
gonna bring in Bill Erwin to direct it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
We're gonna also stunt cast this one with a bunch
of comics. Oh that's fun, and it's gonna be really
really great.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Like really good physical comics. Do you have people that
you'd want Mmm, I.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Think it'd be kind of funny to like put Bo
Burnham in it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That would be really that's a great pot.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, just just like really kind of like a Laker
Zendeia thing. Yeah, yeah, just really jack it up with
people conservative to masters. If it isn't on your radar,
it's very popular. It's on playscripts. No, it's on dramatists. Yeah,
it's dramatists. It's the translation and adaptation that's by Jeffrey Hatcher, yeah,
and Paalo Ameilia Landi. But it was originally like a
(23:08):
when you do comedia scenes, there's not like a play
that you would follow. It's more of like a prompt,
like a little scene or like a little situation. So
I think their originator of this one is Carlo Goldani.
The story for this one is, I guess, like the
synopsis on DPS is across between traditional Italian commedia and
postmodern vaudeville, which is also very physical.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Great.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The new version of gold Donnie's classic pits the mad
cap servant Truffle Dino against masters mistresses Lovers, Lawyers, and
twenty seven plates of meatballs. Imagine a Bob Hope or
Woody Allen comedy written by Monty Python and performed with
the physical brava of Chaplain or Keaton, with places in
the script for ad libs and audience participation. So this
is one that's still for adults. And I say that
(23:50):
because that'll come back into mind for number seven. Now,
let's talk about number six.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay, let's talk about it. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Have you ever heard of the Power Slap League?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
No? Oh wait? Is that the thing where the people
slap each other?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Slap fighting championship.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Slop fighting championships. Yeah, I have seen that.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They're real.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No, I know, I've seen them on Snapchat.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
They're real. And I would like to develop a new.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Script with you, so stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The six piece in our season is a script that
we're co writing. Okay, you're already signed on to it.
Don't worry, got it?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh sick?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I mean about it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I'm getting paid a lot of money, right, Yeah, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think five of the six mil we set aside good.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And that's what I thought. That is money thought, and
that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We're gonna write an original slat Fighting Championship play. And
I don't know if you figured it out by now,
because we're best friends, but the word slaps is a
palindrume four pals, So the play is gonna be called
slap Pals slat Pals, and it's gonna be like kind
of a Challengers vibe. But the important thing about this
(24:49):
is we're gonna develop play, you and me, and it'll
be really fun, and we're gonna study. We're gonna go, like,
you know, deal with these people, learn what they learn.
If if you don't know what I'm talking about, watch
Slap Fighting Championship videos. It's quite tense. I think it's
like perfect rounds for research and writing a play. Absolutely,
but because it is actually, weirdly enough, only the only
violent pieces in my season, the Correct Theater is going
(25:10):
to be sponsoring concurrent free stage combat courses and certifications
on our premises, so anyone can show up and attend
those classes for free get their shirts, because that's a
huge economic barrier to most performers. So if you're interested
in becoming an actor combatant, that's what I would be
doing in this world where I have billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But I do want people to know that we will
be also testing out real slabs, but only on our interns.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah. Good, and that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Here's the thing. It's nice to have the kind of
a bunch of like like you know, like football has,
like those dummies you can tackle. Yeah, that's like, yeah,
we have that too. What did you call them?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Intern Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Sorry yeah, interns? Wait?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh so that's why we call them dummies.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Is your bucket falls?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Our bucket fall?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you don't like this, pickus. I'm really sure we're
baking all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's been really fun that it's kind of like been
Broadway calls but then.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Out of us. Okay, so wait, sorry, wait, somebody coming
in right now? Oh no, guys, necessarily we're in the
summer season. You're working, Oh Broadway.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh I'm sorry, I left the cand of the map
for Broadway. Oh come on, they keep flapping Broadway. Heard
it the s flap Broadway? Broadway.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Please, they're spanking me.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh, Broadway have perfectly good interns for that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh they're walking. Oh yeah, they're gonna go. Yeah, they're going.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That was really scary when you're scared.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I was scared cheeks, all four of them.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I know, I wasn't gonna say, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So we're doing so if we're writing a power slapping.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Flat pals, flat Pals, that's fun.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I was able to work in a palin drum, you know,
I like that. Okay, So that was number six. So
let's recap so far. We've got clown House, Chaplain, the
musical Noises Off, Yeah, the Buster Heaton screening series, The
Servant of Two Masters, our original slat Fighting Championship play
Slat Pals with concurrent artistic education.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes with two more right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Now seven? Yeah, my parents came for graduation. We were
all eaten with your parents, with Liz, everybody who's there.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, Ali.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Shut out actually hit both at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I accidentally they were called We shouted them out.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Of the same I don't know could do that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Isn't that fun? Wait? That sounded kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That sounds kind of if you're a DJ, you know that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
We just found the sick Maybe mashed that one up
for us. We just found the sickest.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Be Wait a minute, did you just write the song
shout out?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Shout Out?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Soon? Now in the in the Year of Our Lord
twenty twenty four, when you at this dinner table at
a brewery asked my mom, oh, like, what's your favorite
show you've ever seen? Erica?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And oh, yeah, I made everybody else.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I made everybody show came to mind for them.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh my gosh, they dude, it was crazy. Okay, can
we talk about this story a second. Yeah, because we
were on the table and my parents said, like, a,
oh I did like a random Neil Simon play or
like a musical that they liked both, and like everybody
was saying different things. Your parents both said some comedian
dolar tape piece you did in high school in high school,
which one my parents would have hated. Two my high
(28:13):
school would have never done. Your parents would like that
ury most parents would. No, My parents like the most
basic stuff in the world. The fact that your parents
like this piece is so cool to me. It's just
like they're so they actually like watch understand it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Out of love for my parents. Because it's the season
of Slaps, were putting that play in the season. So
Servant of Two Masters is the adult commedia play The
Love of Three Oranges by Hillary day Piano is gonna
be our youth series. We're gonna do middle school to
high school age actors for that one.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We're not are the interns allowed to.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Know for the kids, it's for real actors. It's on
play scripts.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
We do his show for high schoolers. We have eight
hundred of them around. We don't even let them audition.
We have a thing on the audition she is are
you an intern? When the mark yes, they're immediately not seen.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, they get dragged off, they gets put over their heads. Yeah.
So this is a comedy I actually did in high school,
and I did. I did actually write down too. I said,
I said, everyone I went to high school with is
allowed to reprise their roles. And the interns are fuming.
They're pissed about it. All four hundred because I didn't
(29:23):
realize we had eight hundred that at the time of writing.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That they all left. The four hundred left and we
asked them the double.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Day all dead exactly. The Love of Three Oranges. I'm
not gonna lie. I haven't read this since I was
a senior in high school, but it's on playscripts. It
was a really fun time. It's a massive cast. You
got eight women, eight men, five any you can have
up to forty actors, right, it gets produced all the time.
The synopsis on here is forget all your dusty misconceptions
about the traditions of Comitia del art as. The Love
of Three Oranges, based on a scene a scenario by
(29:50):
Carlo Gazzi provides a wild, racous, slapstick comedy that is
completely retooled and revised for today's audiences. So it's really great.
It's a love story, it's silly, it's goofy. I ended
up playing like the clown, essentially the La Trebledino type. Yeah,
it was super fun. My mom said, my costume it
was cute. So that's going to be number seven, now
number eight, number eight, our closer. It's going to be
(30:11):
an event.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Our closer for the summer season too, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And the and the last one of our our season
of slaps. Yeah, we started with clowns, We're gonna end
with clowns. But what clowns do we know? From way,
way way back in time.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Justin edit the answer and read about here.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You're right, justin Shakespeare's fools.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Perfect, go ahead and pull back. Well, I mean, if
you had to think about clowns from the way back time,
I would think about Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Fool.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I think with shakespeare Fools. So our final one, our
final season. I couldn't pick one. I thought about it.
We're doing a new event I'm calling fools Play. It's
our Shakespeare in the Park. It's a cabaret of Shakespeare's
best clowns.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's so fine.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, so we're gonna partner with like really really cool
costume designers to do really over the top awesome clown costumes. Yeah,
for actors who are doing like the best most iconic
monologues of Shakespeare's different clowns, fools, all those types. There's
a lot of shakespeare characters who are like deemed the
clown or fool of a script, but they're not maybe
called clown or whatever. Right, you've got your dog berries
(31:09):
and your festies and your fall steps, write anyone, just
your vibes. We're just gonna do a night of monologues
of all of those characters. We're doing completely open like
casting consideration, all ages, all genders, all sorts of stuff.
And that's how we're going to close out the season. Slaps.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That's freaking sick. Yeah, give me a refresh on the
whole season.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, we had Clownhouse, actual clowns, Chaplain, the two thousand
and six musical Noises off the Buster Keaton screening series
with Twizzler Straws, The Servant of Two Masters with potentially
Bill Orwin and bumb Burdam. The Original Slap Fighting Championship
plays slap Pals because Palin drums. Well, only interns get hit,
and we offer classes in stage combat, The Love the
(31:50):
Three Oranges for my parents. Maybe it's a high school
renion unclear, And then fools play a caparet of Shakespeare's
best clowns.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's sick. Well, that's really really fine. That's a good season.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Can I tack something on to the end of this
summer season Selections series. As you guys know, I just
came into a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Five million collaboration.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, I want to announce that I'm officially starting the
Internship Scholarship Fund.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now, for short years we haven't given any money to
the interns.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's been beautiful.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
It's been a tough, beautiful. It's been a beautiful for us,
bad for them. Yeah, I'm taking all five million dollars
that I've made. I'm putting it into a big, big circle,
a big or a big orb, a big orb or
a big money orb, and I'm creating something called the
Slap Games, similar to the Squid Games, but it's with
(32:46):
the eight hundred interns. One of them will win a
percentage that has not been decided of my five million
dollars undisclosed percentage. All of them will not. And I
will say, uh, if I were to split, I give
them the option if I want to split it between
eight eight hundred ways. Each of them. We get six thousand,
two hundred and fifty dollars, but I don't give them
(33:08):
that option. Okay, we start the squid Games and as
the final closer of this season, all the entrants kill
each other until there's one left and they get eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
That's so generous, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But they get to swing, they get to understudy a
swing role in the next season. We do okay, great,
but they still only get eighty bucks for that too.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well that's pre tax.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So here's the thing. Don't ever say we didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Do anything like guys sixty seven exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Sixty seven bucks, sixty six bucks.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Don't spend it all in one place exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I can't believe that we're philanthropist too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's a good season. That was really fun, fun.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That's a really fun summer season.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah, we're doing a playdown when we play out, so.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And then Sally about season three. The play is going
to be the last episode we record so in Morgantown,
and that by the time you hear the season three announcement,
we're going to be back together again. Baby changed, lives
will have changed, so it'll be very different.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Friendship remains exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We're really really excited. Thank you so much for listening
to the episode. Follow us on Instagram at actual arakacoon
at justin Borak, follow us on TikTok at Mediocre Jokes
at the play Bitch rate review, and subscribe to this podcast.
Please tell your friends about it. Let people know all
that stuff. We'll see you guys in two weeks. But
before that, if you want to read any place, you
check out our new play exchanges and read our stuff.
(34:29):
Go check out Kill the Bird. You can also make
sure you're going to read and see theater. It's right
now towards the end of the summer seasons, but it's
probably it's late August, so it's the start of a
lot of regional theater seasons. To make sure you're oh
my gosh, I can't play. This episode's coming out in
late August. But but yeah, make sure you're going to
see theater, you're reading new plays, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
And we hope you guys have had a wonderful summer.
We can't wait to give you guys a playto and
hop back into season three. And I'm gonna end this
episode the way I end every episode by look at
my friend on our big blue and saying Eric Coccoon,
I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Justin Borak, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Uh uh
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