These Comrades Were Funny

Well, Plot and Duck did not score the hat trick last night, but their third theater event of the week was nonetheless quite entertaining. You can read the SF Theater Blog Review of "The Cooking Show with Karimi and Castro" here, but you can't go see it because the show is over, nyah nyah.

Ratings and reviews are always a bit unfair. It's possible that if the Great Plotnik hadn't seen "Bug" on Wednesday and "Octopus" on Saturday, then he might have rated the Sunday performance of "The Cooking Show" a bit higher. But theatre is theatre, and it doesn't seem fair to compare a true legitimate stage piece that has lighting, staging, set design and music with what is basically a set piece for improvisation.

On the other hand, Plot and Duck laughed a lot with Comrades Karimi and Ex last night. And the duo made food and served it to the audience and it was delicious.

Plot is trying very hard to take in as much alternative theater as possible, just to keep his palate cleansed. He knows that he tends to draw the line on certain themes, such as violent/bondage/dead children/animals dismembered, or anything with more than four of these letters in the title: G,L,B,T,U or Q, because he is bound to be unsympathetic before the show even starts. He also rarely goes to dance or opera because he can't stand opera and doesn't understand dance. Except for tap. Tap is different. Tap is life. Can't get enough tap, and thanks to Hildeb for her news today about Brother Slyde and the link to the story about the man's life.