PORT ANGELES — Romance, drama, music, comedy: All come in good time, a band of teenagers find.
And so the ensemble of young people brings to the stage “All in the Timing,” David Ives’ set of six comic sketches, starting this Tuesday and running through Sunday, Nov. 22.
Following 10 weeks of after-school rehearsals, these Port Angeles High School Drama Club performers will present “All” at the Performing Arts Center at Port Angeles High, 304 E. Park Ave.
“This production is post-modern and unusual,” director Kelly Lovall said of the Drama Club’s fall play.
“All of the stories have to do with timing and different ways of perceiving time,” while giving the students, from freshmen on up to seniors, a chance to explore some interesting ideas.
Some are abstract, Lovall added, while others are downright mind-bending.
The curtain will rise on “All in the Timing” at 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with a final show at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is $8 general, $7 for students and free for children under 10.
Parents should be advised that there are some curse words in the show, Lovall added.
Here’s the itinerary of stories, according to descriptions from the Dramatist Play Service.
■ “Sure Thing” has two people, portrayed by Annie Robertson and Senator Atwater, meeting in a cafe and falling in love.
The path does not run smooth, of course.
■ “Words, Words, Words” recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce “Hamlet.”
But what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? Gage Jackson, Noah Sinnes and Hope Winsor portray the three.
■ “The Universal Language,” starring Madison Millet, William Drew and Noah Meredith, brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language.
Their lesson sends them into verbal pyrotechnics — and, naturally, true love.
■ “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread” is a musical vignette in Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
Performers are Annie Robertson, Briana Tumey, Tiara Delatore and Daimon Batchelor.
■ “The Philadelphia” presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into “a Philadelphia,” a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for.
The way out? Requesting the opposite of what he wants.
Performers are Tru Wiggins, Emma Szczepczynski and Cassidy Tamburro.
■ “Variations on the Death of Trotsky” shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber’s axe he’s discovered in his head.
Performers are Kristin Kirkman, Ky DeVoy and Anli Guttormsen.
Still other students involved in bringing this show to fruition are Kacey Casad, Freja Jarvegren-Uecker, Claire Fritschler, Jessica Bernier, Gillian Elofson, Aiden Franich, Madelynne Jones, Charles Krause, Audrey Little, Rylan MacDonald, Sage Star, Mercedes Shimko, Zoe Tucker, and Charlotte Hertel.
The set designer is Forest Clark, a senior.
For information about the Drama Club’s presentation of “All in the Timing,” phone Port Angeles High School at 360-452-7602 or email director Lovall at klovall@portangelesschools.org.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
