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§One Act Play Weekend offers a guide for the 'Modern Man' I', Continued from page 13 if, Qupid wht' is. simplr.ttad " g l 3min, and keeps hitting . the wrong people all the quiet exclusive community of Bridgeport Hot, Ntrneatak meals fur nay diet Donor A use on call Recmatimul activities & mugs Sat-emu ta-tation Triaifshort & long [can stay (Bridgeport (Grids gardens Make Our Home Your Home We are nestled within a 210 Woolwicll SL, Kitchen“ hear lam!" &_East_otriAitkiti) time. A Stupid Cupid. KWLT and Fuchs found Waller from a local piaywrit- ing contest. Faukas, a stu- dent from the University of (519) 584-2525 Waterloo. saw the entry and loved it. Waller and Fuchs collaborated, "worked a few kinks out of the play", and Fazekas decided to direct this show for the one-act play weekend. Cupid (Nicholas Cum- ming) is having one of the worst days othismatchmK ing life. He keeps shooting the wrong arrows at the wrong targets. - He wanted to hit Monique . (Melanie Madmnic) and Mark (Brett HaynesJsotheywilitMlin love, but he hits Angela (Corina Wilson , instead. Now Markisgoingtofall for Angela. This is a major Cupid snag as things in his perfect love connection become ttrrit?ly tanded 1'ps Not only that, Cupid has untiltheendofthedayto straighten things out, or his arrows of passion become permanent -- with a little help from the Gods The last play in The Modem Man's Guide is the most curious one of the three It starts with the title __ The last Touchy-Feely Drama of the American Stage, written by Me Howard and Greg Gamble. Modern Man might not last through this one, but KWIT stage manager Anita Kilgour and director Woodwaxd say hewill. Ithas ale! todo with director Legood. who is always looking for some- thing lttt of centre stage. "Rob went looking on the web, found references to last Touchy Feely and wound up getting hold of the authors to get a copy of the script, read it, feel in love with it, and decided to do it." said Kilgour. "The authors are American. If you have seen Rob's previous directo- rial experience, he likes the very twisted and strange approach to looking at life. Instead of going fora realis- tic approach, he likes tive steps from normal. last Touch Feely is a satirical skewerlng of theatre in gen- eral, not Just community theatre, but the fact that the- atrical community tends to take itself very seriously. "One of the great ways we entertain ourselves is by making people appear to be in great pain. As long as it is not real pain, it is funny somehow." Sportsman guy Steve Stewart was happy to give a Touchy Feely Ample: "The overtly multi-layerd greeting of the playwright entreating the audience to enter his world, just at the same time that the charac- ters bid the intrusion of real- ity into their domain, bring- ing with them magical mad- ness and primrose promises. a rich full calvacade of the human experience." That happens after the father says, JCome in", explains That man enough for you? Kilgour finally admitted to a another and most logi- cal reason for this one-act play weekend theme. "The basic reason we picked this theme is simply this In Kitd'tener-Waterloo, there is a real lack of men in community theatre, con- muy to the current popula- tion of people in this mom. (Kilgour is looking at cast members from two shows in the KWLT front lobby.) For every show that we do, you have three times as many women as men, which is occasionally a pain in the neck. When I found out that all three shows were being done by guys, I thought by virtue of it just being guys directing the shows, that there had to be a male spin on things. That's pretty much how the theme came around."