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Shaggy 2 Grote

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Name My Next Play.
« on: November 13, 2009, 01:44:23 PM »
This is on Twitter/FB, but I thought there might be some good ideas here too.

So I'm writing a play for this guy David Levine:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/david_levine_in_conversation_with_alix_rule/4739

The idea is he's going to build an actual, functioning house in an art gallery or warehouse space, rehearse the play with 3 actors, and have them do it over and over again on an endless loop.  This is a commentary on (among other things) "realistic" drama.  I'm modeling it after these grim, faux-bad-ass, Mike-Show kinds of plays that purport to "tell it like it is" but are pretty much like Larry Clark or knockoff-Tarantino style stories with lots of posturing and exaggerated transgression.  I usually hate these, but they're kinda fun to write.  In my version, there is a love triangle, lots of cocaine use, a gun, and some pumpkins, one of which gets fucked.

These plays all have titles like:

Stone Cold Dead Serious
Shopping And Fucking
This Is How It Goes
The Shape Of Things
Red Light Winter
Some Explicit Polaroids
The Water's Edge

So I need something like this, preferably with "Serious" in the title.  Winner gets a bunch of my published plays or maybe those Truck Nuts Regular Joe sent me last Christmas.
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JonFromMaplewood

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2009, 03:58:52 PM »
Straight Up

You Feel Me?

That's Some Serious Shit Right There

No Vaseline

For Real

No Joke

The Stone Cold Emet  (Hebrew for "truth")
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fonpr

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2009, 03:58:52 PM »
Weirdoes Seriously Exposed

Weirdoes Exposed, Seriously

Serious Weirdoes Exposed

The Serious Reunion
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Christina

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM »
Improv Everywhere Seriously Climbing Up Its Own Ass
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fonpr

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2009, 04:09:01 PM »
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM
Improv Everywhere Seriously Climbing Up Its Own Ass

Should I resent that post, Auntie?
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Christina

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2009, 04:11:39 PM »
Quote from: fonpr on November 13, 2009, 04:09:01 PM
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM
Improv Everywhere Seriously Climbing Up Its Own Ass

Should I resent that post, Auntie?

Are you in Improv Everywhere?
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fonpr

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 04:14:28 PM »
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:11:39 PM
Quote from: fonpr on November 13, 2009, 04:09:01 PM
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM
Improv Everywhere Seriously Climbing Up Its Own Ass

Should I resent that post, Auntie?

Are you in Improv Everywhere?

I improvise everywhere!
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Omar

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2009, 04:14:51 PM »
Serious Pumpkins, One of Which Gets Seriously Fucked.
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dave from knoxville

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2009, 04:24:19 PM »
It's Not Serious Until it Blisters

Schmeerious

Rigorous Cleansing

Still Benign For Now

Chard and Hurricanes

The Current Carried Them Away

Quest for Fail

The Dismal Moments After the Seder

Contrary Opposition

Echolalia Squared

Un Soupcon de Vine

Wretched Vessel

Soul of a Clock

Assignation Crash Pad
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Christina

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2009, 04:25:04 PM »
Quote from: dave from knoxville on November 13, 2009, 04:24:19 PM
It's Not Serious Until it Blisters

Schmeerious

Rigorous Cleansing

Still Benign For Now

Chard and Hurricanes

The Current Carried Them Away

Quest for Fail

The Dismal Moments After the Seder

Contrary Opposition

Echolalia Squared

Un Soupcon de Vine

Wretched Vessel

Soul of a Clock

Assignation Crash Pad


these could also be Morrissey songs.
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Chris L

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2009, 04:43:05 PM »
Serious Refuse
Never Not Serious
Interesting Fucking Times
It’s All Connected
Carving Without a Knife
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nec13

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2009, 04:53:58 PM »
Pumpkins, Guns, and Blow

That basically says it all, doesn't it?
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Christina

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2009, 04:58:45 PM »
Quote from: fonpr on November 13, 2009, 04:14:28 PM
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:11:39 PM
Quote from: fonpr on November 13, 2009, 04:09:01 PM
Quote from: Auntie Christina on November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM
Improv Everywhere Seriously Climbing Up Its Own Ass

Should I resent that post, Auntie?

Are you in Improv Everywhere?

I improvise everywhere!

Okay, then we're square - I was mocking them not you.
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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2009, 05:07:47 PM »
"Once Again, This is Serious."
"Drama. A repeat."
"Tom Scharpling Presents -- Truck Nutz"

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Re: Name My Next Play.
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2009, 05:34:02 PM »
"Series of Us"
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