"Below the Belt"
by Richard Dresser
performed at the Recovery Lounge
October 2007

Synopsis:
Is there more to happiness than misery? That's the paradox in this labour of laughs, when three men grab for all the gusto their meaningless jobs can brew. Stationed in a remote industrial outpost, these pixilated fellows are rewarded for teamwork with loneliness, boredom, ennui, back-stabbing, jealousy and revenge. Yes, many are the benefits of working for a faceless corporation that sucks life from all it touches.

Suzy (Assistant) and Scott (Director)

Bob (Merkin) and Brad (Dobbit)

I played Hanrahan, who along with Dobbit inhabit a small room
in some far off desert, checking workers work in a factory.  You
never discover what they are making, but there is a corporate
mentality that runs through the play, making for some serious
afterthoughts and immediate laughter.

Richard Dresser the playwright and friend of Scott Renderer's
honored us all by coming up to the Recovery Lounge and having
a question and answer session with the audience.

It was very revealing about the inner workings of how
an idea is formed over many experiences and then let
loose in a script of fiction.

Photo Above left to right
Scott Renderer, Bob Andrews, Brad Hurlburt,
Richard Dresser, Terrance Young

Photo Above:
Richard Dresser during the
question and answer.

Photo to the right:
Peg Andrews who worked with
Brad and I teaching us the Cha Cha,
and Scott at the cast party.

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