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George Spelvin: Plays
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Confused and disoriented, accountant George Spelvin finds himself on a stage, forced to play a character in a production where the play keeps changing. Though he desperately makes every effort to fit in, George finds that his comedic journey will come to a bitter end as his nightmare transforms into reality.
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THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE finds accountant George Spelvin has casually wandered on stage where he is informed that one of the actors, Eddie (Edwin Booth), has been in a car accident and George will have to go on for him. The other actors, luminaries such as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, do their best to help George through plays that might be PRIVATE LIVES, HAMLET or Samuel Beckett's CHECKMATE. After fumbling through missed cues and disconcerting play shifts, George rises to the occasion in the climactic scene from A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, finally giving the right line. But dream suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner's axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion. THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE will be presented at the Grand Opening of the Theater On High Street, Ventura County's newest (and oldest) stage. Also on the program is the 30-minute short movie "Theater On High Street - A Documentary Film," telling the lush history of the theater from its early beginnings in 1927 through its recent renovation.
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An accountant named George Spelvin is baffled to find himself on the stage of a theatre. The stage manager tells him that ``Eddie'' (Edwin Booth) has been in a car accident and George will have to go on for him. The curtain goes up on a play which is either Private Lives, Samuel Beckett's Checkmate, or Shakespeare's Hamlet. George wings it as best he can, but is lost when his co-stars exeunt.
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George soon meets all the other actors who are each calling him by a different name. George goes off to get into costume, Meg calls places and the fun begins. Enter Sara Siddons, hilariously played by Jennifer Taub. She knows the play, but George doesn't. He fumbles desperately searching for the right lines and the right play. Meg, now "disguised" as a maid comes to his rescue--several times.
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For the first time, Spelvin is more than baffled. He feels a chill of apprehension, and rightly so, as he hears the stage directions: "The Executioner will be played by himself." When the curtain rises on curtain calls, Spelvin does not. This mordant conclusion echoes that of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Man is a simple soul inadvertently entangled in a blind mess called life with nary a clue as to its meaning and no aid from a Seeing-Eye God.
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