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''All in the Timing'' is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages,〔(''All in the Timing'' ) primarystages.org, accessed February 6, 2014〕 and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013.〔Brantley, Ben. ("Theater Review. 'All in the Timing,' by David Ives, at 59E59 Theaters" ) ''The New York Times'', February 12, 2013〕 It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated collection contains fourteen. The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy-dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, and the complications involved in romantic relationships. High-school and college students frequently perform the plays, often due to their brevity and undemanding staging requirements. ==The Original Six Plays〔(''All in the Timing'' ) dramatists.com, accessed February 8, 2014〕== *''Sure Thing'': A man and a woman meet for the first time in a cafe, where they have an awkward meeting continually reset each time they say the wrong thing, until, finally, they romantically connect. *''Words, Words, Words'': Three chimpanzees, named after famous authors and expected to write ''Hamlet'', for the most part waste time engaging in pointless banter, while occasionally inspired to make grandiose literary allusions. *''The Universal Language'': A man welcomes a naïve woman into his fraudulent language-learning course, in which he only speaks the invented language (Unamunda ); however, he confesses to the deception as he begins to fall in love with her. *''Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread'': A musical parody of minimalist composer Philip Glass. *''The Philadelphia'': At a restaurant, a man is informed by a friend that his frustratingly unlucky day is the result of his ensnarement in an anomalous pocket of reality, called a "Philadelphia," in which he will only be fulfilled by asking for the opposites of what he wants. By the end, the man begins to feel content at last, only for his friend to be pulled also into the Philadelphia, while the waitress groans of her own entanglement in a "Cleveland." *''Variations on the Death of Trotsky'': In comic fashion, revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies over and over again from a mountain-climber's axe-wound received many hours prior. Ultimately, Trotsky talks directly to his assassin who, while posing as a gardener, actually helped make some flowers in the garden grow. This sparks Trotsky to make his final philosophical statements on human life before he dies a final time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All in the Timing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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