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Since we began in 1996, we've concentrated on producing original works,
often written to showcase the special talents of our clinically insane players.
The emphasis is always on commitment to the work: the more fun and exuberant
our performers can be, the more the audience will give itself over to the
play. We're never happier than when we're making total asses of ourselves
in public.
You may notice some eensy gaps in time here and there. Like the one
between 2000 and 2006. We'll, what can we say? Sometimes life gets in the way
of living. Don't worry, though—there's always mischief brewing in our feverish
little brains...
So have a look at our little repertoire. You won't find Shaw or Ibsen
— not yet, anyway. But then, wherever they are, they're probably terribly
relieved about that.
 Where
the Sun Don't Shine
Our most successful production to date! Billed as "a cautionary cocktail
of the uncanny and the everyday, garnished with a twist of fate," WTSDS is
a trilogy of tales celebrating the eerie and unexpected black-and-white world
of midcentury television,
a place beyond the Outer Limits and just downwind of The
Twilight Zone. The
hour-long version of the play sold out at the SF Fringe, and we're hoping
to produce a full-length version very soon...
by Peter Budinger and DC Scarpelli
premiered at the SF Fringe Festival 2006
Awarded Best of Fringe - Ensemble Award
More about WTSDS.... •
WTSDS in
the press...
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 Hors
d'Œuvres
We've always been devotés of The Master - Noël Coward. When offered a small show at UCSF, we immediately dusted off our evening clothes, prepared atrocious faux-Oxonian accents, and put together a cabaret celebrating Coward's astounding music & lyrics.
music and lyrics by Noël Coward
text by Peter Budinger and DC Scarpelli
premiered at Toland Hall, UCSF, 2000
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 It Came from Beneath the Kilt!!!
Billed as a "Comic Shock-Tacular," Kilt!!! was
our first really splashy production at the SF Fringe. A goofy homage
to cheesy English horror anthologies of the 1970s, Kilt!!! sold
out its entire run at the 2000 San Francisco Fringe Festival.
by Peter Budinger and DC Scarpelli
conceived by the authors
with Kevin Kelleher
premiered at the SF Fringe Festival 2000
Awarded Best of Fringe - Camp Award
Read the San Jose Mercury News article.
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 'Dentity Crisis
Jane is convinced she is sane while everyone around her (especially her own family) is completely insane. Or is it the other way around? Christopher Durang's 1971 comedy, in which he takes aim at targets from psychiatry to banana bread. This was the first production Tremendo attempted that wasn't an original play. Durang's style had done a lot to shape our own, so we took it on.
by Christopher Durang
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 Stubs
Have you ever sat in an audience and felt like you were the one being watched? You were. We were the ones watching. Stubs looks at three groups of (stereo)typical theatergoers in a trilogy of one acts set not onstage, but in the audience. Neurotic theater mavens, Suburban subscribers and homicidal critics populate a show the SF Guardian described as "entertaining and full of referential wit."
by Peter Budinger & DC Scarpelli
premiered at the Jewel Theatre, SF, 1998
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 The American Canon
The high school experience is unique to each person who navigates its hallowed,
sticky halls. But one thing is universal – the literature presented
in its English classes. The American Canon paid treacherous tribute
to these classics with vignettes featuring a dancing Moby Dick, a straitjacketed
Holden Caulfield and an all-singing, all-dancing Orwellian '84 - The
Musical! Canon sold out at the 1997 San Francisco Fringe.
by Michael Berlin, Scott Bishop,
Peter Budinger, Jeremy Chism,
Nicholas Helfrich and DC Scarpelli
premiered at the SF Fringe Festival 1997
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 Gloria in Excelsis
Gloria Stevens lives in a frighteningly perfect world of slipcovers
and formica… until the day she finds a magazine full of naked men under her son's bed. Led by the voice of God, Gloria devotes herself to protecting her idyllic existence at any cost. She goes to battle against a Satan in patent-leather cha-cha heels, armed only with what they used to call "Woman's
Intuition."
by DC Scarpelli
premiered at the Exit Theatre, SF, 1996 |
IN THE MEANTIME...
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