Join us for our April Staged Reading via Zoom

Hiding in Plainview

written and performed by Dan Friedrich

Friday, April 2, at 8 pm

on Zoom. Free.  To receive the Zoom invite, contact us at info@hydeparkcommunityplayers. org

And we hope you will stay after the show for discussion.

Dan Friedrich, Hyde Park Community Player and farm Prodigal Son returns to heal our American bi-polar disorder, asking, “Where are the fatted calves?!” Originally conceived as a show to tour Red and Blue states ahead of the 2020 election, it has reemerged in this dystopian live virtual multimedia stand-up format, with such scenes as:

• Public School Kids and Pinocchios

(inspired by George Carlin’s “Football and Baseball”)

• You might be from Plainview

(with a tip of the seed corn hat to Jeff Foxworthy)

• What My Flag Means to Me

(with the actual winning “essays”!)

• All the World’s a Stage and We but Wrestlers on It
• Whistling Past the Grave Yard
• “Sucking the Life Out of the Ogallala Aquifer for 75 Years”
• “You have the right to confess to Perry Mason“
• “Won’t you save these senior citizens from Fox News, for just $19 a month?”
• A Bad Day for Nude Sunbathing
• “I love the smell of herbicide in the morning!”
• Ichabod Crane rides again, to the grain elevator
• Fathers and Sons tractor radio station wars: Pork Belly Prices and Merle Haggard v. Bachman Turner Overdrive
• Kinder, Gentler Pirates
• “Who takes the other 98 percent? The Middleman!”
• “Lassie, go get help – or at least pretend to do chores”
• The Leisure Suits, One Night Only!
• The Smell of Money, and Lack of Social Distancing
• Send in the Klowns
• The Amish Were Right About Everything

About Dan Friedrich:

By day Dan runs his software company, but by night he is a Second City–trained improv sketch performer, writer, and director, including such shows as HPCP’s  “Drones, Clones, and Phones: I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Martin Luther: He’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more,” at Augustana Lutheran Church, “Dear Data Conversion Enthusiast” (with the NASA Information Architecture Working Group), and “The NASA Milestones Live at the Apollo” (starring NASA employees and contractors, performed near the Johnson Space Center). The latter show was part of a research project funded by NASA, with findings published in the paper “The Truth is Out There: Insights from Improv with NASA,” presented at the 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum. This is his first (and perhaps last) personal show.