Seattle P.I. gives CHH4 a nice preview
'Capitol Hill High' returns -- still in a class by itself
If Chekhov is too elevated for you -- or "The Simpsons," for that matter -- the cheeky band of performers staging "Capitol Hill High" might suit you well.
The fourth and final installment of this boisterous satire, "Seeing Red: The Final Period," promises to wrap up the free-associative story that began a year ago, and had sold out tickets for limited seats to its previous three episodes.
Imagine, if you can, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" rewritten by co-authors John Waters and Stephen King, and you might just begin to catch an idea of the freakish fun being offered. The comedic soap opera began, as every adolescent angst film does, with a new kid at school trying to fit in. This being Capitol Hill, his hurdles are cliques like the Aloof Art Fag Mafia, dissing MySpace pages over Victrola espresso, and a crush on the most popular transgendered person in school.
Throw in a little gunplay at the homecoming dance, some drugs from the STD clinic and some blackmail and you have a crowd-pleasing shriek of a show that takes its warped cue from teen slasher movies. After so many of its characters have succumbed to murder, suicide, insanity or accident, the marvel is that there's enough of a cast left to mount this last round.
The broad and outlandish humor probably goes down better with a libation or three, which are amply available to those 21 and over.
"Capitol Hill High 4" opens Friday night and plays through June 30 at The Showroom at Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Avenue. Tickets: $13 in advance at brownpapertickets.comor 800-838-3006, $15 at the door.
-- Gianni Truzzi
If Chekhov is too elevated for you -- or "The Simpsons," for that matter -- the cheeky band of performers staging "Capitol Hill High" might suit you well.
The fourth and final installment of this boisterous satire, "Seeing Red: The Final Period," promises to wrap up the free-associative story that began a year ago, and had sold out tickets for limited seats to its previous three episodes.
Imagine, if you can, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" rewritten by co-authors John Waters and Stephen King, and you might just begin to catch an idea of the freakish fun being offered. The comedic soap opera began, as every adolescent angst film does, with a new kid at school trying to fit in. This being Capitol Hill, his hurdles are cliques like the Aloof Art Fag Mafia, dissing MySpace pages over Victrola espresso, and a crush on the most popular transgendered person in school.
Throw in a little gunplay at the homecoming dance, some drugs from the STD clinic and some blackmail and you have a crowd-pleasing shriek of a show that takes its warped cue from teen slasher movies. After so many of its characters have succumbed to murder, suicide, insanity or accident, the marvel is that there's enough of a cast left to mount this last round.
The broad and outlandish humor probably goes down better with a libation or three, which are amply available to those 21 and over.
"Capitol Hill High 4" opens Friday night and plays through June 30 at The Showroom at Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Avenue. Tickets: $13 in advance at brownpapertickets.comor 800-838-3006, $15 at the door.
-- Gianni Truzzi