Liar
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So, me and some friends are working on this sketch based show thing. Something like a modern thematic revue, I guess. Some SNL-type skits, some standup comedy, some spoken word, a little music, a little nudity, absolutely no dancing, and at least one faked orgasm on stage. That's the ambtion, and we've already written the skit with the cumming, so we're halfway there.
We have just the right actors (some pros and some amateurs including us), a director that totally gets it, and with a little luck, we've got a swell inner city stage and good press coverage for a January opening.
The theme of the show is "things you won't tell your parents and can't tell your kids". We're a bunch of 30 to 35 year olds who have just recently discovered that there's a generation of younger kids out there. And that we've actually grown up. And that that's a bit scary. Because they look at us as Old People, and we realize we have to act the part, like we realize now that our parents most have done since they once must have been what we are now, while at the same time, we'll always be our parents' children. And they love the idea of that so much that we don't want to break the illusion. So we're fighting a two front war of keeping up apperarnces, and at the same time, holding on to our own identity, in the middle.
It's that ongoing charade that is the main theme of the show, and I thought I'd bait the AH for ideas i can shamelessly steal.
So I ask a few random questions and see what happens:
What (big or small things) about you do you not tell your parents (or older people in general)?
What about you do you not tell your kids (or youngsters in general)?
Do you ever act more grownup than you feel?
Do you ever act more like a kid than you really are?
If you have older children, say teenagers, do you feel more connected socially and culturally to them than to your parents?
We have just the right actors (some pros and some amateurs including us), a director that totally gets it, and with a little luck, we've got a swell inner city stage and good press coverage for a January opening.
The theme of the show is "things you won't tell your parents and can't tell your kids". We're a bunch of 30 to 35 year olds who have just recently discovered that there's a generation of younger kids out there. And that we've actually grown up. And that that's a bit scary. Because they look at us as Old People, and we realize we have to act the part, like we realize now that our parents most have done since they once must have been what we are now, while at the same time, we'll always be our parents' children. And they love the idea of that so much that we don't want to break the illusion. So we're fighting a two front war of keeping up apperarnces, and at the same time, holding on to our own identity, in the middle.
It's that ongoing charade that is the main theme of the show, and I thought I'd bait the AH for ideas i can shamelessly steal.
So I ask a few random questions and see what happens:
What (big or small things) about you do you not tell your parents (or older people in general)?
What about you do you not tell your kids (or youngsters in general)?
Do you ever act more grownup than you feel?
Do you ever act more like a kid than you really are?
If you have older children, say teenagers, do you feel more connected socially and culturally to them than to your parents?
