Spontaneous Combustion is a program offered by the Merkaz, an office that is in our apartment building, that serves the Jerusalem in many ways, including arts. Spontaneous Combustion brings together writers and actors to sit together for 2 hours one night, come up with a 10 minute play, and within 48 hours, put on a production. Lucky for us on WUJS, we have a writer AND an actress in our group, who are matched together with another actress (whose name happens to be Ruth, but I promise, it's not me!) for this project. Tonight, the curtain comes up! (Idunno, is that what they say?)
Each short play (and there are 7 of them) start with the same opening line, "I have something to confess" and each have to include or incorporate some famous character. One character was Lance Armstrong, one was the biblical Noah, and one was William Shakespeare. There were more, I just can't remember them now.
Isaac's script was the one with Shakespeare as the character to include in the script, and he decided to have a Shakespeare obsessed mother (Ruth) live out this part. Danit, played her daughter, who tries to tell her mother (who is coming back from a Shakespeare audition, in full outfit and attitude) that she has been proposed to by her Muslim boyfriend and he is coming over later to ask for her permission. Tough stuff to absorb!
Isaac is truly talented and put together a touching and funny script. By far, he had the best show of the night. We might be a little biased, admittedly, but, I really do think it was the best! In the playbill/program for the show, there was an insert that included the options to vote on the best show, funniest show, best actor, and even the show that spontaneously combusted, or just didn't work. We all happily handed in our voting slips, congratulate our friends on a job VERY well done, and began to head home.
Josh and Ethan say they are going to head to Burgers Bar. AWESOME! I loved it last night, why not try it again? So two nights in a row, I have Burgers Bar. Could be an addiction; we shall see.
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