false 186632 1 The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."<br><br>At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread." 180406 8 11 1994 All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays total:360|5:152|4:142|3:59|2:6|1:1| 360 1518 422 38 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 02:42:26 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 02:44:51 -0800 2008 All in the Timing, is a marvelously compendium of wit and wisdom that...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Nov 07 19:50:47 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 19:51:41 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 10:16:13 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 10:17:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 02 10:21:48 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 10:28:43 -0800 2008 Word Freak, as a response to some passages from Tom Stoppard plays on language ... I think we originally got on the topic from the subject of ambiguity (and there from a discussion of the illustrated Strunk & White) which l...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 30 12:22:23 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 12:29:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Jan 28 11:34:40 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:36:34 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 18 08:24:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 08:25:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 04 19:40:07 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 14 08:46:24 -0700 2008 "foreplay" needs to been done with actors, reading it is just confusing.
"words words words" is definite fun, as is "philadelphia" and "sure thing" feels like a glance inside my skull.
"variations on the death of trotsky" is stil...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 10 03:41:43 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 03:45:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 17 15:57:50 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 16:11:24 -0700 2007 nice try, and i knew it involved a bell. and i somehow found it, even though it's not called nice try but sure thing. google didn't care that i don't remember these facts, google connected ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 24 21:11:58 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 22:06:42 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 07:53:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 08:37:53 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 10:22:56 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 18:38:22 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 10 19:24:18 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 19:25:23 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sat Aug 04 01:26:57 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 01:28:05 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Wed Jan 30 12:31:13 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 12:58:08 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Oct 19 03:00:12 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 03:01:13 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Aug 25 11:39:55 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 11:40:44 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Jun 05 18:55:26 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 20:16:33 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Tue Jul 08 11:26:42 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:26:42 -0700 2008