Written by Abby Thomas
Photos by Katherine Rountree
This weekend was a matinee showing of “The Bachelors.” It was a play written by Caroline V. McGraw and directed by Ian Mather, a SCAD performing arts third-year. It starred James Edwards as Henry, Timmy Gibson as Kevlar and DeRon Horton as Laurie.
The show took place in the Dollhouse Productions’ warehouse, which provided an intimate setting, with a rustic style bar set up for the audience the whole hour of the show.
The play takes place in Henry, Kevlar and Laurie’s bachelor pad, opening on a couch in the center with a table on both sides and the floors covered in red solo cups and beer bottles.
The story was about three men who seem to have a sense of arrested development. Kevlar opens the show in a hilarious, drunken state and remains like this throughout the production, adding comedy to every situation. You soon meet Laurie, a more practical character who has just come back from a work trip. Henry then jumps into the scene, a biologist specializing in cell production who is ready to party.
Throughout the course of the play, audiences learned about the bonding of these men into a brotherhood and the struggles that they go through with the women in their lives. It was a hilarious play that gave life through its realistic characters, quirky dialogue and intimate moments.
Mather and the crew wanted to give special thanks to their Indiegogo supporters, through whom they raised most of their funding. Indiegogo is a crowd-funding platform where people can donate towards your financial goal. Their goal was $5,000 and they did happily reach it.
When asked what it was like being a part of the show, Gibson said, “It was great. We were all friends previously and just got closer through this.”
They all seemed to find a sense of togetherness and ensemble while working together during the production.
They rehearsed at Mather’s house and ended up using the couch that they relaxed and rehearsed on for the actual play. Doing this seemed to make the transition to the stage a lot easier.
DeRon said, “Rehearsal was easy because we were already friends, so we were able to get outside of our comfort zone and really experiment.”
They all seemed to enjoy the roles that they portrayed. DeRon said that he had a different role than what he was used to playing, and that he enjoyed that. They discussed how they could each find a part of themselves in their characters. Gibson said that Mather had them do an exercise where they switched roles and that helped their performance a lot. After that, not only did they find a piece of themselves in their characters, but also found parts of themselves in the characters they weren’t even portraying.
