L.08.5: Act Like You Mean it

Al Saunders

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  • Art Critic, U.S. Daily News

    As you know I have been on vacation for the past week, but I hope that has not deterred any of my readers from critiqueing some art on their own. What does an art critic do on vacation? Well this one sampled Terry Maiers’ new play, “Act Like You Mean It”. Maiers is known more for his short comedy sketches, so this is his first attempt at a full length pass4sure “serious” play. I use the paranthesis because there is a lot of humor in this play but overall I would have to say there is no way to call this a comedy.

    The play begins showing a rehearsal of a play where the main character Ralph Brooks cannot remember his lines. Obviously it is late in the rehearsal process and the cast is frustrated with Ralph. Maiers is pass4sure exams clever with his lines in this pat of the act and draws humor from the situation. However Ralph continues with his line phobia after the rehearsal is over, contending he can’t remember what he is supposed to say when having conversations outside the theater. We see him with his wife and a few friends. Agaiin there is humor there, although it felt like author was obviously stretching this act out some. Finally we are given a surprise ending to explain George’s lack of memory at the end of Act 1.

    But when the Seond Act begins and George continues having trouble remembering what to say and appears more nervous things begin to take a more serious tone in the play. The intent seems to be for the audience to have sympathy for Ralph, and even though there are still some humorous lines, it is more nervous laughter from the audience than belly laughs. By the end of the act Ralph seems to be having some serious problems and again we are given the surprise reason for these at the end of the act.

    In the Third Act Ralph is now seriously questioning things up to the point as to just what is real and what isn’t. His questioning leads up to him seeing a psychiatrist. What seemed funny at the beginning of the play now seems very serious and the audience questions Ralph’s sanity. Maiers sticks to his old tricks and after a few meetings with both George and his wife, the pyschiatrist comes up with a surprise solution at the end of the play. However the audience is left wondering if this is really a solution for Ralph or if Ralph was perhaps the only sane one in the play.

    Obviously Maiers has a fondess for gimmicks such as the play within the play and the surprise endings. These work to a certain degree but after a while one is wondering more what he will spring on the audience rather than focusing on the play itself. Also the change in Ralph is so drastic, going from a humorous character to one that questions reality itself, I was left at times wondering just what the author intended. But this is the type of play that needs to be thought about some after seeing it, for looking back at Ralph’s struggle I realize it was meant to model all our struggles with who we are, only on a grander scale.

    Although flawed, this is a play worth seeing for its humor and more for the questions raised and left unaswered at the end.

    How did Lichtenberg know about NCLB?

    I am afraid that the excessively careful education we provide is cultivating dwarf fruit.–GCL, L.46

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  • And if I might add, completely off topic, instead of discussing the “Meaning of Life” we  switch to the “Mysteries of Life”.

    The Lichtenberg Murder

    New York, New York.   The strange case of what has been called the Lichtenberg Killer seems to have been solved with the questioning of a suspect from rural Georgia. Terry Maiers from Carrollton, Georgia was taken into custody concerning what seemed to be a recent murder in New York City.

    A body was found last week with a crest left behind.  After first thinking it was a murder scene police soon learned that the body was stolen from the local morgue and was not the victim of a murder. Someone had tried to make it appear a murder had occurred. On the crest was the picture of Georg Lichtenberg, an 18th century scientist and aphorist, with The Lichtenberg Society written across the top and Cras Melior Est (Latin for Tomorrow is Better) along the bottom. A  simple Google search found that there was such a society on line and it was in Georgia. Further investigation led police to Mr. Maiers as the sole perpetrator of this hoax. In fact Mr. Maiers freely confessed and assured authorities that his fellow members knew nothing of his plans. The police confirmed that Maiers acted alone and that the Lichtenberg Society was harmless.

    In fact it appears that the Lichtenberg Society is a satirical venture begun by a small group of talented actors, writers and a composer who all but one chose other vocations for their lives. They chose Lichtenberg to be their model because of his tendency to procrastinate. The group has even copied some of Lichtenberg’s own procrastinations by writing the first page of a Fielding like novel, with no intention of finishing it. The group does endeavor to produce some creative thinking, but frowns upon anyone actually being successful or famous.

    Thus it seems strange that a member of such a society would create such an elaborate hoax in New York. When asked why he did it Maiers replied,”I read in a book where a man should do three things in his life: love a woman, write a book and kill another man.  I was stuck on number two, so I thought I would go on to number three. Then I could devote all my time to writing my book which would be about my fake killing.” Asked why he came all the way to New York to fabricate this hoax Maiers said. “New York is where every thing happens. It gets all the attention. And this will really irritate my fellow Lichtenbergians.”

    Apparently Maiers left the crest behind to draw attention to the group. In an ironical twist he may have done so at the price of his own membership. The by-laws do not mention murder or even faked murder, but they do emphasize that members should not be too successful in any of their endeavors. By actually planning and then carrying out his hoax Maiers may have broken the by-laws and thus be eliminated from the group. When asked to comment the President of the group, after first reiterating that the Society had no part in the fake murder nor were any of the other members aware of what Maiers was planning,  said they would have to consider things as no one in their group had received this kind of notoriety before.

    Mr. Maiers will have an insanity hearing before they decide what charges will be filed relojes especiales.

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