House

by Jeff Goode

This was an impromptu piece based, loosely, on a character I had played years before in a No Shame Players piece called "eating pizza". Basically, it was an improv between myself and a young couple [Anthony and Jamie] looking to buy a house. Presumably, I was the owner of the house.

I mumbled throughout the scene and always faced upstage. I also flirted with the woman the whole time rather than answering any of the couple's questions about the house. At one point I sidestepped over to Jon Price - who was there to play interstitial music during the whole show - and asked him to play something romantic.

To end the scene, I got out a digital camera and took a flash picture of the couple and asked if I could put it on the internet, at which point they figured out that I did not really have a house.

Jamie and Anthony's reactions were priceless, as you can see in the photo below, which, ironically, is now on the internet.

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January 23, 2004 - No Shame Los Angeles

Performed by Jeff Goode, Anthony Backman, Jamie Bullock, Jonathan Price [piano]

eating pizza

q.v. No Shame Theatre Song ("House" version) (3/30/07)

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