ll the paintings in the shop, though he acts as if someone else is the painter. He gets frustrated easily and has a fake French accent, he is a very creepy character. He enters the stage and begins his act towards the audience. Of course no one in the audience responds but there is a woman who is part of the show that comes from the audience and acts interested in a painting. So his attention is drawn to her and he tries his hardest to sell her a painting. She ends up walking out because he reveals to her that he is a con and she wont even accept the painting for free. Before she left a man called Poor Tom walks in and acts out of sorts. They talk to him and the woman ends up giving him three hundred dollars and a check before he leaves. After the woman is gone the beggar returns looking much better and happy. He appears to be part of Hugos scam. This was a very odd but interesting play. It could in fact prove to be a great in-class skit that could be performed by one of our groups.The Mackerel Conspiracyby : Darrell Kocha and Anthony SchwaderThe Mackerel Conspiracy was a little weird. It was all about how people get high off of fish but at the end realize that fish doesnt make you intoxicated. It was a play with lots of audience participation. The beginning starts out with the narrators speaking directly to the audience. They throw things out into the audience and then go out and yell at the people who caught it. Very, very strange. The story line has two narrators, and they are constantly fighting about who is the "real" narrator. The other characters are either part of the problem or part of the solution. There is a group selling the fish who in the end have a whole stash of "real" drugs in case the fish thing wore off. The other group is all about stopping the drug problem. Their neighborhood has gone continuously downhill, there are shady characters everywhere, people are constantly getting shot and killed, and no one cares about w...
