Since 'Fringe' shows only last for 5 performances, I usually don't like to comment on them, but last weekend I saw what had to be the bottom of the barrel for even the 'Fringe' (and that's going some). Titled "The Naked Dead Elephant in the Room" and written (?) and directed (??) by someone named Larson Rose, this piece of sixth grade garbage manages to be not only sexist and very racist, ultimately homophobic. (Perhaps Mr Rose couldn't figure out Anti-Semitism.) His point of reference is clearly [title of show] and he even manages to bungle that. The plot, such that it is, is about a young playwright pounding on his laptop and talking to an unseen audience (us). He has to write a play quickly and doesn't know what to write about. How's that for original! His sex fantasies keep interrupting him and, yes, we see them played out. Rose seems to not only have contempt for his intended audience (I presume old gay men), but for actors also. What he seems to be saying in his own inept way, is that gay men will see anything with 'Naked' in the title and actors are such whores that they will agree to do anything (really anything!) to be cast. At 45 minutes, this show manages to be utterly offensive and deadly, deadly dull!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)

No comments:
Post a Comment