The actress entered wearing what appeared to be a large orange knitted tea cozy on her head.
Someone in the audience behind me muttered, "I think my mother made that hat."
It's a slippery slope when the audience response to a piece starts to be more entertaining that the piece itself.
Mindless Mirth Productions
The Twisted Grin-Assorted Tales to Amuse and Alarm
An elegant garden party/hanging, a toxic grammar school & a street run by rats; Adapted from works of the late writer Donald Barthelme, these tales and more will take you to interesting and unexpected places.
The Tales to be told are:
Sakrete
A City of Churches
I Bought A Little City
The New Owner
Wrote a Letter
Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
The School
Report
After an actor's introduction which covered a lot of the same ground as the introduction just given them by the Fringe-For-All host just seconds before, the actress in the previously mentioned hat sat down and broke bread to toss at some imaginary pigeons at her feet, and talked about her correspondence with the President of the Moon (where prices are outrageously low). The actress was likely cursing that secondary introduction because the applause kicked in with the red light at the three minute mark, and she cried out "No, I'm not done yet."
To which another audience member and I replied at the same time (spooky), "Yes. Yes, you are done. Goodbye."
It was pleasant and quirky enough. Adaptations of good prose are always a solid foundation. I wish them well.
Plus, Tom Cassidy's doing their art work and I'm all for any project he's involved in, even tangentially. The source material does have his sensibility about it, so it's a good fit.
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