I’ve just started rehearsal for Joseph Scrimshaw’s Adventures in Mating, which will go to New Richmond and Washburn, Wisconsin, on Valentine’s Day weekend.

From the Joking Envelope website:

Adventures in Mating is an audience interactive romantic comedy inspired by the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels of the 70s and 80s. YOU play the role of cruel fate! When the dysfunctional couple on a terrible blind date can’t make simple decisions such as red or white wine, leave or stay, kiss or slap the audience votes and the show takes off in wildly different but always hilarious directions.

It’s a very funny script, and I’m having a lot of fun playing with it. I don’t do enough comedies.

Joseph’s doing a major rewrite (he’s produced this play several times already), extending it into a two-act play. Since it’s a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure play, there are lots of different scenes to learn, so I’ll be cramming one metric buttload of lines into my brain.

I’m also in rehearsal for The Spanish Tragedy. Rehearsing two shows, each quite challenging in their own way, makes me glad to be dayjob-free. Until I have to buy food, that is.

Allons-y!