PRLog (Press Release)– Jul 29, 2011– BUFFALO, NY – Road Less Traveled Productions announces its Curtain Up! offering: the World Premiere of Shaun McLaughlin's Internal Continuity. The production will open on Friday, September 9th, 2011 at the Road Less Traveled Theater. McLaughlin developed this offbeat comedy in RLTP's 2010 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop.
It might be the end of the Golden Age car news for nerdy thirtysomething fanb acura oys Efrin, Shelby, and Buster when Efrin finally discovers the fairer sex. Will Shelby and Buster be able to dissuade their lifelong friend from the Dark Side of the Force? Will tabletop gaming night survive?! Internal Continuity will run through Sunday, October 2nd. It stars popular RLTP regulars Matt Witten, Dave Hayes, and RLTP Resident Actor Bob Grabowski as the central trio, and also introduces Sara Kow-Falcone, Aaron Krygier, and Bethany Sparacio to the RLTT stage for the first time. RLTP Artistic Director Scott Behrend helms the production.
Playwright McLaughlin said the idea for the play originated not just from his love of movies, TV, and comics – all of which he has written for in the past – but also from his relationships. "I realized that I have several long-standing friendships that were centered on a few specific topics, but I didn't know much about them otherwise. I started wondering what these people did with the rest of their lives," said McLaughlin. "Then I started to laugh."
That inspiration allows the play to mine humor not just from the protagonists' peculiar hobbies, offered Behrend, but also organically from their characters. "The comedy starts out very specific, observing these developmentally stunted guys and their geeky interests," Behrend said, "but then becomes much more universal as they meet women, try to expand their horizons, and finally attempt to relate to each other as human beings instead of just as fellow connoisseurs of trivia."
"Internal Continuity offers both the highly referential cultural comedy made popular by shows like "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" while simultaneously remaining steeped in classic character-driven humor in the Neil Simon vein," continued Behrend. "As a result, there should be a lot for every kind of patron to laugh at."
"I think, at its core, this is a play that's not about making fun of people who are different," McLaughlin added, "but about finding common ground with people who are different... after making fun of them."
"You have to start someplace," he said, shrugging.
Playwright Shaun McLaughlin recently returned to WNY after a long stint in Los Angeles, where he wrote or produced over 400 episodes of television, including "Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain", "Batman Beyond", "Static Shock", and other shows that won Emmy Awards, Humanitas Prizes, and other awards. He was also a stand-up comic who performed at legendary venues like The Icehouse and The Comedy Store. He produced the motion picture Gene-Fusion from Gabriel Benson's script; it is currently in distribution from MTI Home Video. In 2009, McLaughlin received his MFA in creative writing with a concentration on stage and screen from the University of British Columbia. In 2010, he formed Cheapjack Partners, an entertainment company that develops properties for graphic novels, television, movies. His play Cheapjack Shakespeare premiered in the fall of 2010 at the Alt Theatre in Buffalo, NY.
Internal Continuity reunites actors Dave Hayes and Matt Witten following their work together in the hit RLTP productions of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot and A.R. Gurney's Light Lunch; Hayes and RLTP Resident Actor Bob Grabowski last teamed up onstage for Gurney's Screen Play, while Grabowski and Witten co-starred in RLTP's The Man Who Had All The Luck, by Arthur Miller. Internal Continuity will assemble all three theatre veterans for the first time onstage.
Internal Continuity runs Friday, September 9th through Sunday, October, 2nd – Thursday through Saturday @ 7:30 PM and Sunday @ 2:00 PM. Tickets are $30 for Adults, $25 for Seniors, and $15 for Students w/ valid IDs. Students w/ valid IDs pay only dodge $5 on Thursdays. Tickets are available at The Road Less Traveled Theater Box Office, online @ www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org , or by calling 629-3069. The Road Less Traveled Theater is located at: 639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14205 (inside the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre).
About Road Less Traveled Productions:Located in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Center 639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 Information: (716) 629-3069 Performances: Thursday – Saturday 7:30 pm & Sunday 2:00 pm Talk-back Thursdays on September 15, 22, & 29 at 7:30 pm Tickets: $30 General $15 Student - $5 Student for Mighty Taco Talkback Thursday $25 Seniors
Purchase tickets: Phone: 1-800-745-3000 Online: www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org Box office: Road Less Traveled Theater 30 minutes before ever bmw y show Box office: Shea's Performing Arts Center/Ticketmaster (646 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 Monday - Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-2)
Scott Behrend and Jon Elston founded Road Less Traveled Productions in 2002. Its mission is to develop and produce world premiere productions by local playwrights.
FREE Parking is available in the secure parking lot on Washington. Valid parking stubs will be refunded at the box office.
The RLTP Season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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