Biffing Mussels (2020)
A Scientific Inquiry of infinitesimal Significance (And One Angry Mussel)
WRITTEN BY / MICHAEL GORMAN
DIRECTED BY / TARA ELLIOTT
October 31, 2020
Steel House South (on the waterfront), Rockland, ME
Performed during the COVID pandemic (socially distanced, of course!), Michael Gorman's classic short absurd comedy was presented on the waterfront at The Steel House in Rockland, Maine. The play was a welcome respite from the social isolation and uncertainty that many of us were feeling at this time, and offered everyone a good opportunity to just...laugh.
SYNOPSIS: A scientist obsessed with applying hard-science to the mundane recounts at length his revolutionary approach to counting all the grains of sand in the world, only to be upstaged by a person in a wetsuit, carrying a tennis racket, who gives a lesson on how best to hit eponymous bivalves (mussels) in order to make the sound “biff”.
DIRECTED BY / TARA ELLIOTT
October 31, 2020
Steel House South (on the waterfront), Rockland, ME
Performed during the COVID pandemic (socially distanced, of course!), Michael Gorman's classic short absurd comedy was presented on the waterfront at The Steel House in Rockland, Maine. The play was a welcome respite from the social isolation and uncertainty that many of us were feeling at this time, and offered everyone a good opportunity to just...laugh.
SYNOPSIS: A scientist obsessed with applying hard-science to the mundane recounts at length his revolutionary approach to counting all the grains of sand in the world, only to be upstaged by a person in a wetsuit, carrying a tennis racket, who gives a lesson on how best to hit eponymous bivalves (mussels) in order to make the sound “biff”.
Cast:
Garrett Solomon (Man); Liz McLeod (Woman); Todd Weeks (Waiter 1): Tyler Weeks (Waiter 2);
Dagney Ernest (Mussel Biffer); Jim Reitz (The Mussel)
Directed by: Tara Elliott
Stage & Production Design: Luke Olson
Music by: Ross Gallagher
Stage Management by: Lydia LaSlavic
Giant Mussel by: Sarah Boyden
Garrett Solomon (Man); Liz McLeod (Woman); Todd Weeks (Waiter 1): Tyler Weeks (Waiter 2);
Dagney Ernest (Mussel Biffer); Jim Reitz (The Mussel)
Directed by: Tara Elliott
Stage & Production Design: Luke Olson
Music by: Ross Gallagher
Stage Management by: Lydia LaSlavic
Giant Mussel by: Sarah Boyden
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Biffing Mussels “lovingly explores the pathology of freaks obsessed with applying hard science to the mundane” |
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Watch a short video of the Rockland performance: