Come enjoy a fun-filled, belly-laugh-inducing evening with a PLAY READING of G Matthew Gaskell's hit comedy "All the Rage".
About the play:
It’s finally here! George and Rhonda’s wedding day!--which means the brothers are headed back to the church to make sure everything is perfect. There’s only 90 minutes to go and nothing will stand in the way of the bride and groom and their special day… except an ancient curse, a mysterious box, and-- of course-- the Cone of Silence.
About this event:
Perhaps you attended last summer's play reading of Gaskell's Sharp Dressed Men at The Dance Hall and laughed so hard your cheeks hurt! Well, All the Rage is the sequel to that story, and packs a comedic punch just as hard as its predecessor!
**Worth noting- this play stands on its own, so fear not if you haven't seen Sharp Dressed Men (...but if you HAVE, you'll appreciate some of the deep cut jokes & references.)
Featuring:
Photo by David J. Murray from the Sharp Dressed Men Trilogy produced by Stage Force in 2014.
G Matthew Gaskell as Henry
Andy Fling as Tom
Christopher Savage as George
Whitney Smith as Sally
Jamie Bradley as Victor
Phil Hobby as the Reverend
Christine Penney as Celeste
and Stage Directions by Alex Picard
What people are saying:
"The style of this comic marathon is somewhere between Seinfeld and Monty Python... This comedy is wild throughout."
-Maine's Journal Tribune
"'All the Rage' is a slick, clean, hilarious machine...comedic jewels, comedy on smart pills. The dialogue is crisp, the humor largely quick even when characters aren't, and the individuals lovable — always.”
“Gaskell, a keen observer of the human condition in his role as a playwright (the SHARP DRESSED MEN trilogy, AS TIME GOES BY, YE MERRY GENTLEMEN, RAY OF LIGHT, WHERE'S WALDO, BACKGROUND CHECK and more) just can't write his plays any other way: he serves up the funny until you expose your soft underbelly laughing, then comes up from the dark depths and slides the point home with something that's keen enough to cut, but not blunt enough to bludgeon. If it bedevils us, Gaskell's not afraid to write about it: whether a key moment in one of his plays turns out funny, poignant, or a bit of both, is anyone's guess as to what's going to come at you- but that's also part of the fun.”
-Caught In The Act Blogspot, Michael J. Curtiss