Have you ever gone on a blind date and found the other person to be obsessed with something else or—worse—showed up naked? Tabor Academy’s Black Box Players have.

“Check Please,” a series of skits depicting dating clichés, was the latest performed at Tabor last weekend.

Directed by Tabor English teacher John Heavey, the skits featured a revolving cast of characters portrayed by 16 of the school’s students.

The characters included “Mr. Extreme,” an accountant who prefers everything to be more intense than the average person. For him, simple daily routines like flossing become a test of endurance.

Not leaving any stereotype untouched, one scene, of course, featured an overly-aggressive man from the Jersey Shore who said one too many come-ons to his date and was slapped across the face for his efforts.

For the cast, each different character was an opportunity to take various personalities to the extreme.

Westfield native and Tabor junior Nick Veronesi, for example, portrayed someone who has a phobia of everything and anything, someone who was duped into a date by a senior citizen and a geek.

Veronesi said, “The best thing is I get to try out different personalities that I’m not familiar with, like the geek. The things I have to do for that character are not exactly things I’d do on a normal basis.”

“Check Please,” written by Jonathan Rand, is the first fall production of the year for Tabor.