Only Three Will Survive
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| Theater | The Institution Theater |
| Directed by | Asaf Ronen |
| Assistant Director(s) | Allison Asher |
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| Crew | Cindy Page |
| Run | Jul/Aug 2012 |
Only Three Will Survive... was a mainstage show at The Institution Theater.
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 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.
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.
This continues a few times through the evening, on occasion more than one character card being pulled for a death.
