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<font size="4"><b>“TOO DEPRESSING FOR WORDS” TUESDAY, MAY 19<br>AT
SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYHOUSE -- FREE!</b></font><b><br><br>SCHENECTADY
– <i>Too Depressing for Words</i>, a new comedy by frequent
Playhouse performer Robin MacDuffie, will be presented as a free play
reading Tuesday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schenectady Civic
Playhouse, 12 So. Church Street, in Schenectady’s historic Stockade
district .<br><br><br>Synopsis: Frank is writing his dramatic
masterpiece. If only he could get past the first few pages. Frank is
stuck solidly in the grips of middle age, and coworker Janice work for
Eugene, who takes sadistic pleasure in making Frank's work life a
hell. Frank lives for his off-work hours when, as he writes, his
characters Ernest and Artice play out their Like a Walk In the Park
scenes in front of him. </b>
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Ernest embodies Frank's damaged and struggling spirit, while spit-fire
Artice represents the youth and artistic alacrity Frank has lost. But,
Frank can never finish a scene; he has writer's block surrounding the
words "too depressing for words," which Artice inevitably utters and,
as a result, all action in his scenes stop. </b>
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As Frank struggles with uncooperative characters and an unsympathetic
boss, his reality begins to warp, and figuring out what is truth and
what is fiction takes a back seat in the quest for a redemptive happy
ending.<br><br><br><i>Too Depressing for Words</i> features Jean T.
Carney, Robert L. Hegeman, Ben McCauley, Randy McConnach, Katherine
Stephens and Bonnie Lake.<br><br><br>Free. Open seating. No advance
reservations. One performance only. 382-2081. www.civicplayers.org<br><br><br>#
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