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bardic_ladyOMG Bunbury! Thankyouthankyouthankyou mum and dad for taking me to see Bunbury! Silly brother, slept through it...
So, we drove out to North Hollywood and found a cute little Italian restaurant and had dinner. Middle of the road Italian, but definitely edible. Then, we drove up Lankershim and found the theatre. It's above a gallery and we spent about an hour looking at the paintings, until they finally opened the house. It's this tiny little 45 seat theatre which, of course, utterly fascinates me. The stage has this really interesting off-center ramp/riser thing in the middle, as well as a platform against the wall stage left. The lights dim and there's a message about turning off your cells and pagers and not kicking Bunbury if he paces in front of you.The play starts and...it's hilarious. Literary references up the ass, jokes about language, really pretty naked gay boys with adorable British accents, fantastic costuming ranging from Renaissance to Victorian to 30's to 60's, all for the same eight actors. All about Bunbury, the imaginary invalid from Importance of Being Ernest(and incidentally Algernon's gay lover), and what happens when he says that Rosaline (from R&J) is sub-fictional and she shows up to refute that. They change R&J, which leads to changes in R&J (Romeo is stopped from killing himself by Rosaline, which gives Juliet time to wake up and everyone but Rosaline lives happily ever after...),"The Raven" (now it's a peacock that says "Anytime!"), Three Sisters("Who wants to go to Moscow?""Me!""Then let's go NOW!"), Streetcar (Bunbury has an affairette with Blanche's husband(another literary never seen), she finds out but ends up okay with it and goes off in search of love), Virginia Woolf (Bunbury brings George and Martha's (imaginary) son Jim to them, having saved him from being killed by keeping his car from hitting a porcupine, they reconcile, George and Martha have sex, as do Blanche and Jim). Rosaline decides they've been wrong to change literature and goes back and poisons Romeo herself (he deserves it, he and Juliet are about to have their eighth child and hate each other) and thus writes herself back out of R&J. Bunbury isn't convinced, he shows that they were right as he appears in Waiting for Godot. As Godot. He comes and finds Algernon, age 96, who became a literary scholar and spent his life tracing a motif through 20th-century literature that turned out to be Bunbury. They watch the moon landing, featuring commentary by President Robert Kennedy and everything ends happily. Aside from the great costumes, the set was really interestingly used, and the lighting was simple but effective. The peacock puppet was hysterical, as was the remote controlled stuffed porcupine. Did I mention the really pretty naked Brit gay boys? 'Cause, that was fantastic. Very, very pretty. And I really have to stop finding smoking hot... One of the cast members was Steven Reisberg, who I worked with on a show called Eva Peron and the Fourth Reich, right after high school. It was great to see him again. Anyhoo, utterly lovely and just what I needed.
So, we drove out to North Hollywood and found a cute little Italian restaurant and had dinner. Middle of the road Italian, but definitely edible. Then, we drove up Lankershim and found the theatre. It's above a gallery and we spent about an hour looking at the paintings, until they finally opened the house. It's this tiny little 45 seat theatre which, of course, utterly fascinates me. The stage has this really interesting off-center ramp/riser thing in the middle, as well as a platform against the wall stage left. The lights dim and there's a message about turning off your cells and pagers and not kicking Bunbury if he paces in front of you.The play starts and...it's hilarious. Literary references up the ass, jokes about language, really pretty naked gay boys with adorable British accents, fantastic costuming ranging from Renaissance to Victorian to 30's to 60's, all for the same eight actors. All about Bunbury, the imaginary invalid from Importance of Being Ernest(and incidentally Algernon's gay lover), and what happens when he says that Rosaline (from R&J) is sub-fictional and she shows up to refute that. They change R&J, which leads to changes in R&J (Romeo is stopped from killing himself by Rosaline, which gives Juliet time to wake up and everyone but Rosaline lives happily ever after...),"The Raven" (now it's a peacock that says "Anytime!"), Three Sisters("Who wants to go to Moscow?""Me!""Then let's go NOW!"), Streetcar (Bunbury has an affairette with Blanche's husband(another literary never seen), she finds out but ends up okay with it and goes off in search of love), Virginia Woolf (Bunbury brings George and Martha's (imaginary) son Jim to them, having saved him from being killed by keeping his car from hitting a porcupine, they reconcile, George and Martha have sex, as do Blanche and Jim). Rosaline decides they've been wrong to change literature and goes back and poisons Romeo herself (he deserves it, he and Juliet are about to have their eighth child and hate each other) and thus writes herself back out of R&J. Bunbury isn't convinced, he shows that they were right as he appears in Waiting for Godot. As Godot. He comes and finds Algernon, age 96, who became a literary scholar and spent his life tracing a motif through 20th-century literature that turned out to be Bunbury. They watch the moon landing, featuring commentary by President Robert Kennedy and everything ends happily. Aside from the great costumes, the set was really interestingly used, and the lighting was simple but effective. The peacock puppet was hysterical, as was the remote controlled stuffed porcupine. Did I mention the really pretty naked Brit gay boys? 'Cause, that was fantastic. Very, very pretty. And I really have to stop finding smoking hot... One of the cast members was Steven Reisberg, who I worked with on a show called Eva Peron and the Fourth Reich, right after high school. It was great to see him again. Anyhoo, utterly lovely and just what I needed.
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Date: 11/26/05 02:24 am (UTC)