Cue music: Dum. DUM. Dum dum dum DUUM dum. Dum dum dum DUUM dum. Dum dum dum dummmm…. If that makes any sense to you, you’re probably the target of Charles Ross’s uproarious One Man Star Wars Trilogy, now making a return engagement in D.C. at Woolly Mammoth Theater. The show’s exactly what it sounds like — Ross acts out just about every scene of the three original films with gusto, even humming the movements…
Hyperbole can be dangerous, but it’s hard to think of a more laugh-inducing scene that we’ve seen on the DC stage this season than Kate Eastwood Norris’s exchange with, well, herself, during Woolly Mammoth Theater’s uproarious production of She Stoops to Comedy. Kate is playing two lesbian lovers, Kay Fien and Jayne Summerhouse. The wonderfully self-aware She Stoops is more than conscious of the fact that the actress has been on double duty, and keeps…
Many critics accused the recent hit movie Little Miss Sunshine of borrowing stock eccentric characters from the abstract Land of Generic Quirk. The same might be said of Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, a play with characters who seem to be a conveniently thrown-together group of wackos rather than anything resembling a realistically dysfunctional family. We’re talking a dominatrix, a possibly-retarded sister, an obsessive-compulsive cleaning lady, and naturally, the Elvis, to name a few….
At the Friday night performance of Woolly Mammoth Theater’s production of Get Your War On, the audience found just about every moment of the work uproariously funny. Was it because the lines were genuinely clever? Was it because they agreed so wholeheartedly with the author’s liberal stance? Was it a much-needed release after enduring years upon years of injustice from the Bush administration? It’s hard to say, but it begs the question whether the play…
It’s June and while many houses are wrapping up their seasons rather than embarking on new productions, others are up to the task of bringing something for us to watch this month, though the summer theater season looks a bit heavier than the X-Men-like offerings the summer movie season brings each year. Dysfunctional student/teacher relationships are at the center of Woolly Mammoth Theater’s satirical The Faculty Room (June 5). Four men renounce women in favor…
Who will win the Battle of the Batty? In Woolly Mammoth Theater’s production of The Gigli Concert, each character is a contender. In one corner we have the fidgety, self-absorbed and ultimately nutty J.P.W. King (Howard Shalwitz), practitioner of Dynamatology, a pseudoscience never fully explained, which comes off as a nonsensical marriage of philosophy and psychology. There’s Mona (Kimberly Schraf), the sexually aggressive adulteress chatting with a young girl who doesn’t appear to be there….
