In Soviet Philadelphia, play reviews YOU

[yagathai]

I went to see a couple of one-acts last night, a double-bill of The Actor's Nightmare and top-billed Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All To You, both (ostensible) comedies by Christopher Durang. I actually enjoyed the undercard much more than Sister Mary, and since it was a very small theater and I'm a 6' blond Asian guy that was sitting front and center second row, my distinct lack of amusement was apparently noted by the cast. I'm told that backstage I was called a "black hole of laughter" that never even so much as cracked a smile, and apparently I really got the players down.

Perhaps next time they should try, I don't know, being funny. I often laugh at funny things. Or they could be in a play that was competently written, instead of one that was painfully trite and unsubtle. And the direction didn't do them any favors either.

Comments

[pocketseizure.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but I have always wanted to make a "Soviet Philadelphia" joke.

In Soviet Philadelphia, I-78 drives YOU.

In Soviet Philadelphia, restaurant orders YOU.

In Soviet Philadelphia, sidewalk pukes on YOU.

I never make them, though, because I don't know if any of these jokes are funny outside of the context of me loving this city but also hating it a little bit several times a day. You are a black hole of laughter; I am a black hole of humor.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

You are a black hole of laughter; I am a black hole of humor.

Where's your event horizon?

[pocketseizure.livejournal.com]

Somewhere around dead baby joke territory.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I love this thread and I want to buy it dinner.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

And this thread will put out, but only if you also spring for the bottle of wine and fistful of quaaludes necessary for it to get over its crippling social anxiety and lubrication issues.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I can supply both of those things. And Sliquid.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

This thread looks forward to meeting you in an anonymous motel room somewhere, then.

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

I think you should make "black hole of laughter" you new title.

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps 'your' title. Gah. Need coffee.

[caudelac.livejournal.com]

I really liked the Actor's Nightmare, in high school.

[kev.livejournal.com]

Of all the things to wear with a badge of pride, it's THIS?


I love it.