No Shame Theatre Archives (1988-89)

KEY:
Author(s) - Title (Performers, if known)

1. Numbered entries indicate the piece's position in the order.
   

• Bulleted entries - the exact order is unknown.
  

[several pieces were performed in Theatre Department Lab as an introduction to No Shame]

• Jeff Goode - So All Alone (Greg Jackson, Amy Pigott, Karen Moeller, Craig Chesler, Heather McCutcheon, Dai Parker-Gwilliam, Stuart Hoyle, Jewels Peter, Jeff Parsons, Erich Heinz) [This was the closing piece of the preview.]
  

• No Shame Players - introducing No Shame Players III (Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Craig Chesler)
  

• No Shame Players - The Puma Story / Droo Drow Drocky (Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode, Jewels Peter)
  

• [one guy doing a penthouse article about the IC Police.]
  

• No Shame Players - The Brain (Marci Glotzer, Jewels Peter, Jeff Parson, Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Karen Moeller)
  
• Scott B. Smith - Margo
  
• Todd Ristau - Firebug
  

• No Shame Players - first ever No Shame Players serial (Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode, Frank Ensenberger)
  
• Todd Ristau - Nikos' Birthday
  

• No Shame Players - Battle the Dog and piano (Erin Quinn Purcell, Karen Moeller, Jeff Goode, Frank Ensenberger)
  

• Not Ready for No Shame Players [William Brinkman and Andrew Miller] - Performance Art
  
• Todd Ristau - Piece for me and David
  

1. Not Ready for No Shame Players [William Brinkman and Andrew Miller] - Friend dying of AIDS
   
2. Gary Frank Things Fathers Say
   

1. Johnson/Gurler - "nice tie"
   
2. No Shame Players - somebody might hear (Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Frank Ensenberger)
   

A recent evening at No Shame began with the introduction of a young couple, "who were married today at the courthouse." They proceeded to enact the garter belt routine. The overflowing crowd of 200 roared with approval. ---Kevin Goulding

• Branko Dimitrijevic - Six Pack Show (Branko Dimitrijevic)
  
• Jon Price (lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe) - Annabelle Lee (Jon Price, sung to his own accompaniment)
• a musical skit involving a confrontation between two men for a woman's affections. The men frolicked about embodying images, such as butterflies and frogs, as the woman sang. The piece ended with them all joining forces in song, only the words were nonsensical and unintelligible.
• Brad Schnurr's portrayal of a little boy trying to figure out how his brother got lipstick on his underwear.

• Todd Ristau - A piece for Scott and Me aka (A really clever idea) (Scott B. Smith & Todd Ristau)
  

• Jeff Goode - Dead Panther
  
• Todd Ristau - (first act of his play) - (probably Lovers)
  

• Todd Ristau - vampire piece (possibly the so-called Piece for March 4th)
  
• Jeff Goode - Dead Panther: Talking Parrot (Greg Jackson, Hannah Gale, Jeri Lynn Schulke, Mike Moran, Michele Sohner, Mark Johnson, Greg Armknecht, Marci Glotzer)
  
• Jeff Goode - Cave Walruses (Sheela Kangal, Brad Schnurr, Erin Quinn Purcell, Cheryl Snodgrass, Mike Wells)
  
• No Shame Players - Blanstein serial #1 (Erin Quinn Purcell, Frank Ensenberger, Jeff Goode)
  
• Jeff Goode - The Emperor's New Clothes (Jeff Goode, Amy Pigott at Tall Girl, Greg Jackson as Toad Boy)
  

• No Shame Players - Blanstein serial #2 (Frank Ensenberger, Erin Quinn Purcell, Cheryl Snodgrass)
  

• Not Ready for No Shame Players [William Brinkman and Andrew Miller] - Out of the Mouths of Valley Girls
  
• Jon Price / Dan Layne - Albatross song
  
• Gary Frank - Things Mothers Say
  
• Frank Adducci - "Brother Jimmy"
  

• Todd Ristau - Piece for February 17th 1989
  

1. Jeff Goode - The Interview (Jeff Goode, Jon Price, Mike Wells, Mike Moran, Eric Pot, Stuart Hoyle)
   
2. ???
   
3. ???
   
4. Michael Wells - Bob the Plant (Michael Wells)
   
5. Jon Price / Dan Layne - song
   
6. (Ashley Runnels with Eric Pot tapping)
   
7. No Shame Players - crossword puzzle (Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode)
   
8. Frank Adducci - (janitor-poet from Hardees)
   

Carolyn makes mention of the following for this night:

• Philosophy Teacher/Hardees Poet/Beethoven Sketch. Referred to as "Hardees Sanitation Sketch"
  
• "Free at Last"
• Something about sleeping with a plant?
• reference to a Dead Panther sketch
  
• Question about whether the money has been raised for the piano.

1. Lynch - can man monologue
   
2. Stuart Hoyle - "Oh Darlin'" w/ backup singers
   
3. Frank Ensenberger - Touch My Brother's Wee Wee
   
4. Jeff Goode - Life & Death of Squeaky McKlean, Part 2 (Greg Jackson, Amy Pigott, Diana Dawson)
   
5. Johnson - the bus scene (Diana Dawson, Cheryl Snodgrass, Gina Kaufmann)
   
6. Jeff Goode - Spider-Man (Mike Wells)
   
7. Whitfield - My Prerogative dance
   

Carolyn's notes for this night:

• Gwen Link (first of the night) with the cans and the story of the homeless man under the bridge. Best serious piece I've seen at No Shame in sometime.
• Spiderman sketch
• 3 scripts in envelopes, people reading them cold.
• The lipsync at the end was really interesting. Those guys certainly can dance.
• "Touch My Brother's Wee-Wee"

1. Jon Price - sonnet
   

• Piano player doing something

• No Shame Players - Armknecht's audition (Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Frank Ensenberger, Greg Armknecht)
  

• Jeff Goode - Nicaragua (Mike Wells, Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode)
  
• No Shame Players - childhood songs (Erin Quinn Purcell, Mike Wells, Jeff Goode)
  

• The first act would have been much better if the people had acted and not read.
• The Wile E. Coyote bit went over well because of the fact that he memorized it mostly.
• Writer and Critic Script
• Gary Frank might have been involved

• Jeff Goode - Snyx the Dragon (Mike Wells, Greg Armknecht)
  
• No Shame Players - My Funny Valentine / GRE Test (Erin Quinn Purcell, Scott Bradley Smith, Mike Wells, Jeff Goode)
  

• Todd Ristau - Chicken Sunday - (Brad Schnurr)
  

• Last skit of the night involved a red ink gun

• Todd Ristau - Coyote Scene
  

• Dan Gurler
  
• Mark Johnson
  
• Margo (Scott B. Smith)
  
• Todd Ristau
  
• Jon Price - Annabel Lee (lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe)
  
• Gary Frank [This was either Things Mothers Say from 2/10/89 or Things Fathers Say from 12/2/88.]
  
• Michael Wells - Bob the Plant (Michael Wells) [For some reason, Michael didn't like this piece. After the first night, he refused to perform it on Saturday, and did Jeff Goode's Spider-Man during his slot instead.]
  
• Stuart Hoyle
  
• T-Bone (Rich Kurschner)
  
• Jeff Goode - Doctor Yahtze [This was almost certainly a version of Doctor Yahtze: First Position.]
  
• Skully and Mitchell (Eric Heinz & Matthew Janes)
  
• Brad Schnurr
  
• Jeff Goode - Dead Panther: Talking Parrot (Greg Jackson, Hannah Gale, Jeri Lynn Schulke, Mike Moran, Michele Sohner, Mark Johnson, Greg Armknecht, Jewels Peter)
  
• No Shame Players [On Friday, No Shame Players did somebody might hear from 12/9/88. On Saturday it was Nicaragua, a new piece combining somebody might hear with Jeff Goode's Nicaragua.]
  

• Gary&Jacob doing "Moms" (Due to Jacob's abscence)
• John singing "Annabel Lee."
• Two by NS Players
• Dead panther (disputed about whether this was there or not. Maybe fri but not sat.)
• One where the four people lyed on the florr was rather wierd, but not too bad.
• (Names listed on the poster: Gurler, Johnson, Smith, Ristau, Price, Frank, Wells, T-Bone, The music of Stuart Hoyle, Margo, Scully & Mitchell, Dr. Yahtzee, Schnurr, Heinz, Dead Panther, "and more")

"This was the year they were going to toss me out [of the workshop], and Bob had said to put all my no shame pieces together and call it a play and maybe that would help me in their consideration of body of work, so I was writing a bunch of things that might be no shames, and he never went so he wouldn't know." ---Ristau

• Dump
  
• My Life, My Heart, Fuck You and Yours
  

[Randy Rollison, artistic director of the H.O.M.E. for Creative Arts was one of the festival guests in attendance at the reading and offered Todd an internship to start No Shame Theatre in New York.]

• Jeff Goode - Live for the Moment (Greg Jackson w/ Cheryl Snodgrass, Diana Dawson)
  
• Jeff Goode - The Stockhausen Monologue or Bigfoot Hunter (Mark Petrak)
  
• Jeff Goode - Masturbation (Mike Wells, Jeff Goode)
  
• No Shame Players - Bastille Day (Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode, Mike Wells, Scott Bradley Smith, Greg Jackson [?])
  
• Jeff Goode - Niagara Falls (Frank Ensenberger, Marci Glotzer, Diana Dawson) (performed outside)
  

• Jeff Goode - Mayor McCheese
  
• No Shame Players - the Last Piece or Leaving Home (Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Frank Ensenberger)
  
• Scott Smith - Big White Telephone [Musical at the end. Long live the Looser's and Ray on the white telephone. "1-800-843-7070 talk to ray talk to me......"]
  

• Mark Johnson - WOW (Ashley Sovern, Krys Drogoszewski, Eric Pot, Greg Armknecht) [according to Mark, this piece debuted in 1989. The script was included in the TDR article (spring 1990)]
  
• No Shame Dada Players - The First Celestial Adventure of Mr. Anti-Pyrine, Fire Extinguisher by Tristin Tzara, directed by Frank Ensenberger
  
• Jon Price (lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe) - Israfel
  
  [This is the one that he broke the piano on. The applause was fantastic, and in the black out he went to push his normal piano stool back to stand and take a bow, I think, but he'd forgotten he wasn't on a wheeled stool, he was in a folding chair and so the piano fell backwards from his push, since he couldn't move. There was this horrible crash and the audience went silent.---Ristau]
  
• Todd Ristau - Piece of Prose Theatre - (Todd Ristau, Dan Janssen)
  
• Todd Ristau - Bench - (Todd Ristau, Cheryl Snodgrass) [No Shame in Theatre B]
  
• Todd Ristau - Piece for March 4th - [probably Spring 1989; probably not March 4th.]