Stage Left Theatre

DETAILS

RULES

ROUND 1

ROUND 2

Click below
to hear the
story on DrekFest from WBEZ's
Eight Fotry-Eight

Stage Left Theatre in association with present:

WORSTAMENT 2010!! It takes guts to write crap!
THE DETAILS
The Finals!!! -- Monday August 16 at 7:30pm. Tickets $15 Featuring this line-up of dazzlingly terrible plays: "Town Our: A Post-Structuralist Deconstruction of Thornton Wilder’s 'Our Town'," by Drekfest 2009 winner Randall Colburn "Women & Men & Women: Or, I am Totally not a Misogynist," by Robert Karol "Man Vs. Carp: An Environmental Tale Exploring Mostly, but not Exclusively, the Themes of Tolerance, Immigration, Conservation, and a General Understanding of the Problems Going on in the World Today," by Jake Lindquist "Won’t Someone Please Boil the Water? A Hygiene Play," by 2007 & 2008 Drekfest winner Rob Kozlowski Click to purchase tickets All performances take place at The ComedySportz Theatre 929 W. Belmont Chicago, IL 60657 www.comedysportzchicago.com
THE RULES
The worst 2 plays of each Semi-Final round as determined by audience vote will go on to the Finals on Monday, August 16, 2010. Following the readings on 8/16, a panel of adjudicators will tear theplaywrights apart for having given the world such terrible plays. One play will be chosen as the Grand Prize-winning Worst Play by the audience in attendance. Cash prizes will be given to all eight Semi-Finalists, as well as other highly coveted honors for the truly terrible. In addition to Worst Play, prizes that may be awarded by our panel of adjudicators include those for Worst Title, Worst Opening Line, Worst Stage Direction and Worst Character Name, among others. DrekFest 2 winner Rob Koslowksi receives the big check.
Semi-Final Round 1 -- 8/2:
You Didn’t See This Coming: The play with a twist ending you won’t see coming, by Kate Black Untitled Brilliant Play (The Title Should Sound Very Artistic if You Have any Ideas): A True Opus Worthy of All the Greats, by James Thomson Town Our: A Post-Structuralist Deconstruction of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”, by Drekfest 2009 winner Randall Colburn Women & Men & Women: Or, I am Totally not a Misogynist, by Robert Karol While the votes are tabulated, an encore reading of The Worst Play from 2008 “The Frenzied Beating of the Jungle Tom-Toms Once More, Once More”
Semi-Final Round 2-- 8/9:
Death by Coat Rack, by Joshua McIlvain Won’t Someone Please Boil the Water? A Hygiene Play, by 2007 & 2008 Drekfest winner Rob Kozlowski Man Vs. Carp: An Environmental Tale Exploring Mostly, but not Exclusively, the Themes of Tolerance,Immigration, Conservation, and a General Understanding of the Problems Going on in the World Today, by Jake Lindquist TaranTea Party, Mother F*er!! A homage to Tarantino and the Tea Party – two of the coolest T things ever, by Scott Woldman While the votes are tabulated, an encore reading of The Worst Play from 2009: “’SCARECROW’ OR SOME SHIT, CALL IT WHATEVER YOU FING WANT, I DON’T CARE. A Fing Harsh Play About Scarecrows and Killing Bitches”
Art Is fun!! -- DrekFest 2 -- the only DrekFest anyone bothered to take pictures of.