Going to New Orleans in the next couple of weeks? Be sure to check out my brother Ron's triumphant debut on the New Orleans theatre scene, as he dominates the Cripple Creek Theatre Company's new production of One Flea Spare. Take a trip back to those wacky days of the Great Plague of London. Join those loony Cripple Creekers as they romp and revel their way through the hilarious days when bubonic plague killed more than a third of the population of London. Follow the side-splitting hijinks of an aristocratic couple confined to their home along with two "stowaway" peasants, guarded by that Puckish scamp of a jailer, played by Ron.
Yeah, not so much.
This is sort of like the "bring out your dead" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, only without the funny, and lasting two hours. Its pretty much grim, grimmer, and grimmest, notwithstanding that Ron's character sucks the toes of a 12 year old girl, struts about with his shirt off half the show, and wears a hat with smoking charcoal, and two other characters have sex with an orange. Pretty normal stuff (although I am from Austin so my perspective may be skewed). But I have to say its the finest plague-related dramatic work since Camus' "The Plague," or "The Omega Man" (a really overboard '70s Charlton Heston movie where he's the last man on earth except for the zombie survivors of a biological war-very deep).
I heartily recommend you check it out. It got a fairly good review in the Gambit. Ron's by far the best performer, resisting the natural inclination to bring any humor to the role e.g. Dogberry in "Much Ado About Nothing" or Officer Krupke (or Sergeant Schultz in Hogan's Heroes). And he gets to dance a jig. And has the last line in the show.
It ends May 31. Check it out!
Yeah, not so much.
This is sort of like the "bring out your dead" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, only without the funny, and lasting two hours. Its pretty much grim, grimmer, and grimmest, notwithstanding that Ron's character sucks the toes of a 12 year old girl, struts about with his shirt off half the show, and wears a hat with smoking charcoal, and two other characters have sex with an orange. Pretty normal stuff (although I am from Austin so my perspective may be skewed). But I have to say its the finest plague-related dramatic work since Camus' "The Plague," or "The Omega Man" (a really overboard '70s Charlton Heston movie where he's the last man on earth except for the zombie survivors of a biological war-very deep).
I heartily recommend you check it out. It got a fairly good review in the Gambit. Ron's by far the best performer, resisting the natural inclination to bring any humor to the role e.g. Dogberry in "Much Ado About Nothing" or Officer Krupke (or Sergeant Schultz in Hogan's Heroes). And he gets to dance a jig. And has the last line in the show.
It ends May 31. Check it out!
2 comments:
It's a great show!
I actually shagged an orange too!
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