Theater 95: That Day is Coming, Every Day is Coming
Summary
That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming is a short play intended for audio-only formats. Two older gentlemen, longtime gamblers and friends, meet for their regular $100/$200 cribbage match. Over this routine card game, the men, never referred to by name until the play's conclusion, initially discuss benign concerns within their gambling circles but soon begin considering larger issues. The talk turns to notions of time, existence, and purpose until the older of the pair confesses that he has terminal cancer. This admission refocuses the lens of their conversation and uneasily points it squarely upon them. That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming contemplates some weightier philosophical issues through the filter of everyday vernacular.
Dennis Gersten directs actors Allan Wasserman, James Calvert and Stephen Gillikin.Playwright Cameron Scott
Cameron Scott
Cameron Scott sold his first short story while an undergrad at New York University. He has since created brand campaigns for over 100 Broadway plays and musicals and has recently turned to writing plays of his own. His one-act drama Uphill was an official selection in Legacy Theatre’s Play Reading Festival this past September. It was subsequently produced by Wilmington Drama League where it won Best in Festival and later represented the winning play from Delaware at ESTAFest 2023 (Eastern States Theater Association). Scene Ten from Uphill will be published later this year in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023 (Smith & Kraus).
Director
Dennis Gersten
Dennis is co-artistic director of Theatre Unlimited in the Noho Arts District in L.A. He is a founding member of the Michael Chekhov Studio in L.A., and Stagewrights, Inc. in NYC, as well as a teaching artist with Inside Out Community Arts/P.S.Arts. He has directed and performed in many original and classic works, garnering multiple awards.
Cast…
Allan Wasserman - Card Player
Allan Wasserman celebrates fifty years as a working actor in many feature films ...such as Suburbicon playing opposite Matt Damon and directed by George Clooney and Funny People opposite Adam Sandler and directed by Judd Apatow and many more. His numerous television appearances include recurring guest star work as Rabbi Sherman on the upcoming series The Shrink Next Door opposite Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, Hunters as well as the F/X pilot Gone Hollywood, and numerous guest stars on Arrested Development, Castle, Two Broke Girls, Bones, The Office, ER, The Sopranos, Boston Legal, Las Vegas, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Seinfeld. On stage Allan performed on Broadway in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel with Al Pacino and in many plays in numerous theaters around the country. Allan is an alto saxophonist, vibraphonist and bandleader of The Allan Wasserman Jazz Ensemble.
James Calvert - Card Player
James Calvert began his professional career on television, starring in a couple series and guest starring in scores of others. In live theater, Mr. Calvert has appeared in productions with Opera Santa Barbara, Interact Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Parson's Nose Theatre, Crown City Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, among others. In addition to acting and writing, he is an eager traveler, exploring Europe, South East Asia, South America, etc.
Stephen Gillikin - Card sound effects
Stephen’s Bio