More Thoughts about Yellow Face plus Mrs. Zinfandini and Lefty Biscuits

"Yellow Face" is getting better and better, the further from the performance Plotnik gets. When that happens, it usually means the play is better than the production was -- which is to say the writing stays in your mind while the actual performance fades away.

On Friday night, as he left the theater, he felt the show had few redeeming qualities, but by the time he got home he was already thinking about it in a more complimentary way; now, a day and a half later, Plot is starting to think he'd like to see the show again in a different venue with a different set of actors. Not that there is anything wrong with Mountain View Center for Performing Arts or with the current Theaterworks creative team -- Pun Bandhu and Francis Jue were terrific -- but something was definitely missing on Friday night. Acting? Directing? Writing? A theater that is too cavernous and an audience too infirm?

It's never easy to tell. Plot will see this show again in the future. You can read the San Francisco Theater Blog review of "Yellow Face" here, but you better leave your old Charlie Chan videos at home.



Last night Mrs. Zinfandini showed off her old, pre-marriage Pool Hall chops, to the amazement of everyone including her daughter Fee Monster and her niece Lefty Biscuits.





Lefty Biscuits apparently did not even know she was left handed until it was pointed out to her that she shoots pool with her left hand -- and she's danged good, too. She appears to eat biscuits right handed, though it was hard to tell since they were disappearing in a hurry. Nobody makes better buttermilk biscuits than Ducknik.