- 0 to 6 in 60
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- 0 to 6 in 60
69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: 0 - 6 in 60
Reviewer: lizza
Reviewer Email: emaher@virnig.com
Rating: 2 Stars
I know that a lot of hard work must have gone into writing these 6 short
pieces - but they didn't interest me much. I fell asleep. I liked the acting
of the "Peaches" girl - but somebody had told her to place her
"professor" in the Audience - back left. Her references to that
space were odd. One actor had a script in his hand. Hmmmm. Just not my
cup of tea.
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: Dana Stewart
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Rating: 3 Stars
Comedies and dramas with enough hits to make up for the misses. Strong acting
throughout. Intense Mother/child themes a common denominator in several
plays, which is what the evening left me thinking about.
Play: Identity (0 to 6 in 60)
Reviewer: beverlee johnson
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Rating: 5 Stars
These 5 10 minute plays were excellent and the acting was extremely good.
The weak play was Twinship which we found very confusing. We thought Mother
was the best of the bunch - loved the twist at the end and also enjoyed
the last one very much. The playwrites should be congratulated on bringing
their ideas to life on the stage in 10 minutes......very original and entertaining.
Play: ) to 6 in ^)
Reviewer: Aikya Param
Reviewer Email: aikya@yahoo.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Loved this hour of theater! Here is serious subject matter presented with
humour and compassion. ACCOSTED makes as real as a mugging the opportunity
to "Drop your fear!" The first PEACHES EN REGALIA presents a young
naive woman who, like most of us, has a valid insight that doesn't go anywhere,
achieve recorgnition or earn her any meaningful connection with others.
Recognizing the value of her insight, she wanders somewhat bewildered by
the nonsequiturs that follow, but ever ready to rejoice at some triumph
or other. The second PEACHES monologue is hilarious and may be slightly
autobiographical. DIVERGENCE worked as a demonstration but I kept wishing
that sometimes I could have heard one or the other character. DEAR MOM shows
the angst of mother/son relationship with attachment and control struggles,
power plays, and the son's desire for freedom. OUT OF BREATH shows two adult
children struggling with the death of their comatose mother. It includes
attachment, anger a!
nd grief common to our encounters with death. Dance is used as a metaphor
for life relationships and the intensity of the transition.
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: Brandon
Reviewer Email: brandonrulestheworld@earthlink.net
Rating: 3 Stars
I liked this show for what it attempted more for than what it realized.
The acting was good, but a couple of the pieces lost my interest. The mugger
scene and the one with the Mother/son relationship had some good ideas,
but didn't build to much. The one with the couple falling in and out of
love came off too heavy handed. The piece with the dying mother ended great,
but started off too slow.
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: Jeff Thompson
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Rating: 2 Stars
As a writing workshop final project this might have been OK, but the best
of the pieces seemed like interesting first drafts and a couple of the pieces
seemed like uninteresting hopefully last drafts. The acting was hit and
miss but generally better than the scripts.There was one piece and one performance
that was so much better than the rest that it seemed to be from another
show. There is also a mystery. The program lists T J Metz in two roles but
the day I saw the show each role was played by a different actor...so I
don't know if the actor who came on stage(script in hand no less ) and performed
"Norman' Monologue" and blew us all away was TJ or not but whoever
you are great.
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: Francois-Marie Arouet
Reviewer Email: curtis@buttercat.com
Rating: 2 Stars
Like all the great venues - the Globe, the Colosseum, PacBell Park - the
Exit lets you bring your drink inside. Dr. Voltaire says: spring for a double.
"0 to 6" is six short, unrelated plays by a Berkeley writing group, "Play Cafe." The best is moderately amusing, the worst toothgrinding, and the rest go down well with a Guinness. Or two.
The tone is set with "Accosted," an earnest ersatz-Brecht where
a mugger relieves a woman not of her purse but of her hangups - helpfully
symbolized for us, as labeled sandbags on her back. "Peaches Monologue"
(one of two by Play Cafe CEO Steve Lyons, who may be unaware of the hip
art-porn diva Peaches) is a dull and insulting soliloquy by a young woman,
who is, apparently, shallow. In "Dear Mom," a mother attempts
to give her twentysomething son a house, but he doesn't want it. Their motivations
aren't quite clear, but it's very dramatic. "Norman Monologue,"
Lyons' second, is better, a Palahniesque recounting of a bad men's room
encounter - Lyons is not afraid to use the F-word, and earned a couple of
quite genuine laffs. "Divergence" is a pleasantly brief, postmodern
romantic allegory that may (or may not) involve the Vietnam War - perhaps
a pressing issue for its author, UC Berkeley senior Christopher Chen. "Out
Of Breath" spills backwards into Chen's slot, and needs !
it: a painful brother-sister-mother hospital scene with everything from
death rattles to fisticuffs, it may deserve a full episode.
The best thing about "0 to 6" is the acting, always competent and sometimes good (though one actor chose to work script in hand). Also, some of the actors are nice to look at. Lights and sound: dynamic, but unobtrusive. And that Guinness - cold, sweet, and creamy-smooth...
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: Jennifer Kollmer
Reviewer Email: jkollmer2@excite.com
Rating: 2 Stars
These six plays were undoubtedly well intentioned, but they fail to engage
the audience, let alone move beyond being mere skits. Short plays are tough.
You’ve only got a few minutes, but you’re by no means exempt from
showing us real characters with needs--these probably need to be sharper
in a 10-minute play than in longer work. Unfortunately, the plays in 0 to
6 in 60 don’t convey who any of their characters are, and without character,
dramatic action is a pipe dream.
Play: 0 to 60
Reviewer: jes'fine
Reviewer Email: jes_fine@hotmail.com
Rating: 3 Stars
Actually I'd give it 3.75 stars , almost a four. This is a minifest of 6
ten minute shows. My score card shows two homers , a tripple , two doubles
and a single. The "Peaches" duo alone were worth the price of
admission. In fact, I was so inspired that I'm still looking for that emergency
can of Del Monte peaches so I can attempt it at home.
Play: 0 to 6 in 60
Reviewer: J
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Rating: 2 Stars
Opens well with a short play about a robber who has the tables turned on
him, but trails off from there. The 6 plays presented range from interesting
to trite. There are good parts in the scripts, and there is some good acting
talent, but the good parts of both never quite seem to match up.