Twinhead Theatre's Choose Your Adventure: The Play - 11/30 @ Eyedrum
As it's been a month since I actually saw this thing, my memory about is going to be pretty foggy at best (part of that is a purposeful mental block, but more on that later). And this also adds further reasoning why I am going to end the concert blog as it stands now. I know, I know, you like to read it. I understand and I appreciate it. But if it's going to take me up to a month to recap a show, then really what's the point? I still plan to write/blog in some capacity, but it won't be centered around each and every concert I go to. However, that's not to say I won't write about the occasional show now or again if it makes sense. New year, new changes, so let's just see how it goes. Now on to this long delayed write up and see if I can write about the December shows before Spring.
The only reason I wanted to go to this play was because I knew two of the cast members, Eddie Ray and Elle Beaux, so I wanted to go to support them. Even brought Rikki along with me to check them out as they're both very funny and entertaining in person, so figured they could bring a lot to a comedic play. And the idea of a play based on the cheesy Choose Your Own Adventure books, seemed like a pretty bright idea. Last time I saw anyone try that on a grand scale was when they came out with that movie based on the game Clue. And now that I'm well within hindsight, perhaps there's a good reason why they don't use that format all to often.
Not to say it was a horrible play, but it wasn't great either. It was clever (or rather it had clever moments), but clever doesn't always equal funny. Then again neither is having a time machine shaped like a vagina and called a KUNT or CUNT or QUNT, I don't really remember the proper acronym, but you get the idea of the "humor" involved. Or the main villain having two kittens where her boobs should be, again semi clever, just not at all funny (sweater kittens, get it? oh when will the hilarity start). But I don't mind sitting through an amateur production when I'm supporting people I like. But I do mind sitting through an amateur production when I don't get to see the people I like.
Apparently since this was an adventure by choice, our particular audience kept making the wrong choices on where the play went. So we were stuck in this way overlong and very boring Atlantis escapade that just went on and on and on. And as this was a "comedy" performance, what was one of their jokes about? Coral reefer. OMG, it's a play on words about underwater marijuana. I haven't heard anything that funny since Jimmy Buffet named his stupid ass band that decades ago, oh the hilarity. And after what seemed an hour of this Atlantis bullshit, then we got stuck with some lame New England/Ted Kennedy skit, followed by an even more lame and stupid space skit. I don't even know how to describe that last one, other than you could tell they were running out of good ideas by the end of their script. So needless to say, even though I only saw a minute of Eddie Ray and a second of Elle Beaux, I was more glad to see the play end.
I later found out from both of them that they were in lots of different scenes, just not any of the ones we picked. There was some Aztec thing and Nazi Germany stuff, that sounded like it would've been quite entertaining, but then just about anything would've been more entertaining than what Rikki and I sat through. And now that I look back at all I wrote, I guess I really didn't like this play much at all. I thought I didn't mind it, but appears I do think it's a horrible play after all. Thank you blog for helping me work through the pain and reach a breakthrough. And if Twinhead plans another Choose Your Adventure play, I'll probably choose not to see it.
The only reason I wanted to go to this play was because I knew two of the cast members, Eddie Ray and Elle Beaux, so I wanted to go to support them. Even brought Rikki along with me to check them out as they're both very funny and entertaining in person, so figured they could bring a lot to a comedic play. And the idea of a play based on the cheesy Choose Your Own Adventure books, seemed like a pretty bright idea. Last time I saw anyone try that on a grand scale was when they came out with that movie based on the game Clue. And now that I'm well within hindsight, perhaps there's a good reason why they don't use that format all to often.
Not to say it was a horrible play, but it wasn't great either. It was clever (or rather it had clever moments), but clever doesn't always equal funny. Then again neither is having a time machine shaped like a vagina and called a KUNT or CUNT or QUNT, I don't really remember the proper acronym, but you get the idea of the "humor" involved. Or the main villain having two kittens where her boobs should be, again semi clever, just not at all funny (sweater kittens, get it? oh when will the hilarity start). But I don't mind sitting through an amateur production when I'm supporting people I like. But I do mind sitting through an amateur production when I don't get to see the people I like.
Apparently since this was an adventure by choice, our particular audience kept making the wrong choices on where the play went. So we were stuck in this way overlong and very boring Atlantis escapade that just went on and on and on. And as this was a "comedy" performance, what was one of their jokes about? Coral reefer. OMG, it's a play on words about underwater marijuana. I haven't heard anything that funny since Jimmy Buffet named his stupid ass band that decades ago, oh the hilarity. And after what seemed an hour of this Atlantis bullshit, then we got stuck with some lame New England/Ted Kennedy skit, followed by an even more lame and stupid space skit. I don't even know how to describe that last one, other than you could tell they were running out of good ideas by the end of their script. So needless to say, even though I only saw a minute of Eddie Ray and a second of Elle Beaux, I was more glad to see the play end.
I later found out from both of them that they were in lots of different scenes, just not any of the ones we picked. There was some Aztec thing and Nazi Germany stuff, that sounded like it would've been quite entertaining, but then just about anything would've been more entertaining than what Rikki and I sat through. And now that I look back at all I wrote, I guess I really didn't like this play much at all. I thought I didn't mind it, but appears I do think it's a horrible play after all. Thank you blog for helping me work through the pain and reach a breakthrough. And if Twinhead plans another Choose Your Adventure play, I'll probably choose not to see it.