Here are two photos from Tira Palmquist's lovely and smart production of "Twisted Love: A Board Game Menage a Trois" at Hunger Artists Theatre in Fullerton, CA. Pictured: Tyler Seiple as "Husband" and Jennice Butler as "Wife." In the photo on the right, that's the knee of Alison Plott as "Mistress." Tira herself (unseen) played "Mother-in-Law." They were a fantastic and fantastically game cast.Boy, it was great (though I hear there's an actor conflict and my show isn't being performed tonight, Friday, 11/21 - just in case you were going down to see it). But the whole festival is pretty terrific and definitely worth seeing - shows run through Sunday.
The play, by the way, is performed on a Twister board. Each of the 20 circles on the board corresponds to a different line of text. Therefore the 'playing' of the play is determined by a spin of the spinner - each actor, speaking in turn, gets to choose which of the 2 other characters to say the line to as their bodies intertwine. The piece is over when someone trips, falls and 'dies' - and the other two remaining actors make out passionately over the corpse. So it's got a different combination and set of text every time it's played. Fun!
I originally wrote "Twisted Love" for a "postcard play" competition for the journal "Play: A Journal of Plays" - whose only stipulation was that each piece had to fit entirely on a postcard. My play was accepted, published, and performed in Seattle back in 2007. Click on the following link to buy copies of the postcard play collection.
