Rumor Has It

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So I just got home from my school's fall play Rumors. It was an extremely challenging show to put on because it is nothing but dialogue between six characters at the most but usually just two or three. That much back and forth (in this case, it was usually arguing) had to have been very difficult.

Just a little insight on what happened, a man, Charlie Brok and his wife Myra were celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary but when the first couple, Chris and Ken Gorman, showed up, they found Charlie passed out upstairs with a bullet hole through his earlobe, Myra and the help nowhere to be seen. As more families show up, the story changes to what happens until finally it all comes out. But no one knows why or how Charlie was shot. At one point towards the end the cops come and want to speak to Mr. Brok about a car crash. Everyone gives excuses and reasons why Charlie or Myra are missing; some quite comical. The cops were about to leave when a mention of gun shots slips from one of the people in the room. The police ask for Charlie at once.

One problem...Charlie is out cold upstairs. So Lenny Ganz pretends to be Charlie ('CAUSE HE HELD OUT ONE FINGER, THAT'S WHY!) and goes off on what seems like a never ending story of what happened. He speaks in Spanish (which is very impressive because the actor, a good friend of mine, takes German and probably didn't know what he was saying) and goes into such detail one wouldn't know what to believe. All of this Charlie is making up as he goes; word by word, sentence by sentence.

This was, by far, one of my favorite shows I've seen. For having such a difficult show to perform, they did a tremendous job. For a while I thought I was really looking at a living room watching people stress over how the police didn’t believe them when they said that, “Charlie took his dog for a walk then went to bed on his anniversary.” It was like reading book that you never wanted to end and when it does, you’re sad that you have to leave that story behind. But you’ll always remember how that was one heck of a good book.


~Skooogster(: