What genre does best?

[Jordan F]

Ok what do genre's do you think are the best to go with? Something scary and intense like "I Might Be Edgar Allen Poe", touching like "Tradition 1A", or heart wrenching like "Telephone Man". I mean retarted pieces are easier to do, and they are increadibly heart breaking to most. Do you think intense pieces can do better?

[jman255]

I think a mix between Tradition 1A and Telephone Man. You can have a sweet, touching piece and not have the main character be retarted. I think the ones that the character doesn't try and extract sympathy are the best...In Telephone Man the character does not try and make you feel bad for him; he's just telling his story. Same case for Mr. Charles...

[aqua4n6]

The narrator in Telephone Man isn't retarded...

[ria]

i've never seen any of those pieces, but i think a mix of touching and heart-wrenching would be good. generally, in both d.i. and solo, if you can start the audience out laughing and end them on a tear, you're doing just ducky.

[This is not Jenn]

I say stick with something that is believable because sometimes those far fetched pieces become funny.

Like last year there was a piece about the little girls father getting drunk on christmas eve and mistaking the santa in her house window for a burglar, shooting it and hittign the mother than killing himself. The unbelievableness of the story combined with crappiness of the delivery of the girl who did it made the piece almost funny.

[Jordan F]

What about dark and intense pieces?

[aqua4n6]

Personally, I don't really like dark and intense pieces. Neil Labute's, "Bash" would be an exception for me. I love all three pieces in there. I tend to enjoy heartwarming/touching pieces more. And occasionally I'll like something really unusual if it's done really well (think: Hedwig and the Angry Inch). I don't know. It'll always come down to who gave the better performance, but generally I'm not about dark/intense/DUN DUN DUN pieces.

[DCdisco]

I say stick with something that is believable because sometimes those far fetched pieces become funny.

Like last year there was a piece about the little girls father getting drunk on christmas eve and mistaking the santa in her house window for a burglar, shooting it and hittign the mother than killing himself. The unbelievableness of the story combined with crappiness of the delivery of the girl who did it made the piece almost funny.

I can't remember the name of it......but i totally hate that piece....its so cheesy....

[xxLusciousZechxx]

I say stick with something that is believable because sometimes those far fetched pieces become funny.

Like last year there was a piece about the little girls father getting drunk on christmas eve and mistaking the santa in her house window for a burglar, shooting it and hittign the mother than killing himself. The unbelievableness of the story combined with crappiness of the delivery of the girl who did it made the piece almost funny.

I can't remember the name of it......but i totally hate that piece....its so cheesy....

"Disturbed" is the piece.

[ria]

i think Disturbed is believable enough. i mean, the guy got drunk. that's why he thought his santa was a burglar. and then when he came up and saw his wife lying there, and his daughter next to her, he killed himself. it's depressing, and the general plot is overused in speech pieces, but it's still believable. i actually think we have a duo team doing that this year. i think.

[Jordan F]

What are all of the pieces in Bash called? I know Iphengina In Orem, but what else?

[jman255]

Media Redux and some other one that I rarely ever see...I fogot the name of it

[aqua4n6]

"A Gaggle of Saints" is the third one. I love it, but it's more commonly done as a DI for a guy, you can cut the large monologue in the piece and it tells a story pretty much on its own.

[This is not Jenn]

i think Disturbed is believable enough. i mean, the guy got drunk. that's why he thought his santa was a burglar. and then when he came up and saw his wife lying there, and his daughter next to her, he killed himself. it's depressing, and the general plot is overused in speech pieces, but it's still believable. i actually think we have a duo team doing that this year. i think.

I think it is in how it is done. MAn...this girl...Argh
I think the intro can be confusing..In this girl's she talked about it being a joke so it made it all weird.

[This is not Jenn]

Ones that the judge can feel do good. Like last year I had one about a sister dying of cancer and the other sister and yadda. And everysingle round I made a judge cry..because almost everyperson can feel that. Pieces about falling in love with bricks or your dad coming home drunk on christmas eve and shooting himself and his wife... people cant feel as easily.

[ria]

the joke at the beginning is that the guy was pretending his dad had killed himself, and the girl didn't think it was funny (for obvious reasons) when she found out. i wasn't confused, but then, perhaps the performer i saw was better than the one you saw.

that sounds like a prose my friend did a couple of years ago...did the girl who had cancer ask her sister to help her commit suicide, by any chance?

[This is not Jenn]

No I did A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry..its a novel. I cut it when I was a little kid. Like one sister is dying and its about what the other sister is going through and whatnot. Its a good book. I havent ever seen anyone do it.

[ria]

oooooooooooh. i see.