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|Name = Only Three Will Survive...
|Name = Only Three Will Survive...
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|Theater= [[The Institution Theater]]
|Theater= [[The Institution Theater]]
|Director = [[Asaf Ronen]]
|Director = [[Asaf Ronen]]
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''Only Three Will Survive...'' was a mainstage show at [[The Institution Theater]].
'''''Only Three Will Survive''''' (often written with a trailing ellipsis: '''''Only Three Will Survive...''''' was a mainstage show at [[The Institution Theater]].


==Summary==
==Summary==
ONLY THREE WILL SURVIVE… was a narrative improv that takes place in an around an audience-suggested location. The cast of characters united in this space would suffer through a series of tragic disasters until, as the title states, only three of them are left.
The show was a narrative improv that took place in and around an audience-suggested location. The cast of characters united in this space would suffer through a series of tragic disasters until, as the title states, only three of them were left.


The host, played by Asaf Ronen, is vaguely demonic as he sits behind the kind of table you would find in a store-front psychic’s parlor. He deals out tarot cards, one for each player that night, from the major arcane: The Fool, The Emperor, The Empress, The Lovers, The Heirophant, The Magician, The Hermit, The Devil, The Hanged Man. As each card is dealt, the characters step out (their order is also random) and introduce themselves and their connection to the location through a three-line monologue.
The host, played by Asaf Ronen, was vaguely demonic, and sat behind the kind of table you would find in a store-front psychic's parlor. He dealt out tarot cards, one for each player that night, from the [[wikipedia:major arcana|major arcana]]: The Fool, The Emperor, The Empress, The Lovers, The Heirophant, The Magician, The Hermit, The Devil, The Hanged Man. As each card was dealt, the characters stepped out (their order also random) and introduced themselves and their connection to the location through a three-line monologue.


Then the play begins showing this cross-section of people going about their routines. At about 30 minutes in, the first bell rings, and the host steps forward, this time with two decks of cards on his table. One deck is the tarot archetypes; the other deck is a series of possible disasters ranging from hurricane to plague to The Rapture to hyper-smart sharks and more. An audience member picks from each of the deck, inadvertently deciding which character has just died and which disaster they perished from. That character delivers a parting monologue, not knowing how they died until it is announced to them halfway through their speech.
Then the play began, showing this cross-section of people going about their routines. At about 30 minutes in, the first bell rang, and the host would step forward, this time with two decks of cards on his table. One deck was the tarot archetypes; the other deck was a series of possible disasters ranging from "hurricane" to "plague" to "the rapture" to "hyper-smart sharks" and more. An audience member picked from each of the deck, inadvertently deciding which character has just died and which disaster they perished from. That character delivered a parting monologue, not knowing how they died until it was announced to them halfway through their speech.


This continues a few times through the evening, on occasion more than one character card being pulled for a death.
This continued a few times through the evening.  Sometimes more than one character card would be pulled simultaneously.


==Media==
== More Information ==
=== Photos ===
* [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151019281434090&set=a.10151019273174090.456363.273514734089&type=3&theater The show's facebook page.]
=== Publicity ===

Revision as of 03:07, 9 November 2013


Only Three Will Survive (often written with a trailing ellipsis: Only Three Will Survive... was a mainstage show at The Institution Theater.

Summary

The show was a narrative improv that took place in and around an audience-suggested location. The cast of characters united in this space would suffer through a series of tragic disasters until, as the title states, only three of them were left.

The host, played by Asaf Ronen, was vaguely demonic, and sat behind the kind of table you would find in a store-front psychic's parlor. He dealt out tarot cards, one for each player that night, from the major arcana: The Fool, The Emperor, The Empress, The Lovers, The Heirophant, The Magician, The Hermit, The Devil, The Hanged Man. As each card was dealt, the characters stepped out (their order also random) and introduced themselves and their connection to the location through a three-line monologue.

Then the play began, showing this cross-section of people going about their routines. At about 30 minutes in, the first bell rang, and the host would step forward, this time with two decks of cards on his table. One deck was the tarot archetypes; the other deck was a series of possible disasters ranging from "hurricane" to "plague" to "the rapture" to "hyper-smart sharks" and more. An audience member picked from each of the deck, inadvertently deciding which character has just died and which disaster they perished from. That character delivered a parting monologue, not knowing how they died until it was announced to them halfway through their speech.

This continued a few times through the evening. Sometimes more than one character card would be pulled simultaneously.

More Information

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