A brief review of the One Act Wonder show at St. Pats: After a hectic few days of casting, rehearsals, running around in general, and of course swordplay choreography lessons from the mighty Yiannis, the brave players of DCU Drama took to the stage on Wednesday night last... The competition was quite stiff, with entries from DIT and ST. Pats themselves. The other plays included a clever re-enactment of the famous restaurant scene from "Reservoir Dogs", an exploration of the lesbian dating experience and no less than two different plays featuring the Devil himself ! We were up against it, no mistake. Set design was a new and interactive experience, with the guys coming up with new ideas even as we were about to go on. It confused the hell out of our newly appointed stage manager and prop monkey, the erstwhile Gary Boylan. With just one dress rehearsal (and that one fraught with strained nerves and frantic adjustments to lighting and sound effects) under our belts, we trooped downstairs to finish designing our costumes and building our helmets. It's amazing what you can do with a wastepaper basket, tinfoil, masking tape and a bit of spray paint (in a little under ten minutes...). The moment of truth arrived. The lights dimmed. Conor fired up the camcorder, in order to document our 20 minutes of fame. And what a twenty minutes ! In our hallowed twenty minutes in the spotlight: We used 5 swords, 2 axes, 2 wastepaper basket helmets, 1 glass of water (thanks Taryn !) 3 impromtu jousting lances, 1 genuine confession box, 2 logs (don't ask), 1 rubber severed arm, 1 foam rubber penis, 1 Tony Blair mask and 1 whole sheepskin. Dave played 6 different roles. Bob played 7, 8 if you count the fact that one of the characters was scihzophrenic. We squeezed in NINE different scenes. We managed to get AC/DC and Yngwie Malsteem onto the soundtrack of a medieval show. And Bush bombing the Iraqis. The rest, as they say, is history. It was alright on the night. Nobody flubbed their lines or missed their mark, and we raised a few laughs with easily the most original and humourous play of the night. FOR THE RECORD: Yiannis Kobatsiaris: Director Writer Co-producer "The Priest" David Grimes: Co-Producer "Drunken Knight 1" "French Knight" "Jousting Knight 1" "Swordfighting Knight 3" "Bjorn the Viking" "George W Bush" Bob O Mhurcu: Co-Producer "Drunken Knight 3" "English Knight" "Jousting Knight 2" "Swordfighting Knight 2" "Confession Knight" "Ding/Dong the Schizophrenic" "Iraqi Man" Shane Murphy: "Druken Knight 2" "The Announcer" "Swordfighting Knight 1" "Clog the Prophet" "Tony Blair" Taryn Hickey: "Damsel in Distress" "Iraqi Woman" Mike O' Keeffe: "Derig the Simply Big" "Gostro the Showoff" Aislinn O' Loughlin: "Princess Brunhilda the Fair-Enough" "Gostro the Showoff" (confusing, eh ?) Mark O' Brien: "The Narrator" Anto (?): "King Bruno the Questionable" "His Holiness the Pope" That's it, I'm going to bed. Bob Roibeard "Bob" O Mhurcu, Student # 54144094 "You there ! Bring me the Wall St. Journal ! You two ! Fight to the death !" - Stewie Griffin, the world's campest megalomaniac toddler -