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Sept. 29, 2010
Comedy: it’s what’s for dinner
Well, after a so-so August comedy
show, I’m happy to report that the September stop for my “Laugh
More Tour” was non-stop funny. Honestly, I believe in my heart,
that if we all bought a ticket to see the stand-up act I saw (and
by “all” I mean, “the World”), we could go a long way to achieving
World Peace.
So what did I see? Well, you’ll have
to go online and read about it, because I don’t have the space
here.
What I do need to tell you about,
though, is that
Hood
River,
to my knowledge, is getting a rare kind of treat. And since I
can’t remember if we’ve ever had the choice to go see this kind of
show, it must be a rare thing. And that thing is: A dinner-comedy
theater show.
I don’t think it’s too complicated.
For one ticket, you get dinner and the comic-thriller story of
“Faithful,” an original play from the cast of FoxWell Productions,
a professional touring company from Brookings, Ore.
However, in my interview with one of
the stars of the production, Michael Fox, I found out that several
facets of the play — and of comedy in general — seem to be more
complicated than you’d think.
According to Fox, the story weaves
different perspectives, twists the ideas stemming from tragedy and
explores relationship themes to try and generate something that’s
on the other end of the spectrum: Laughter. Isn’t it amazing that
in the realm of comedy, you can take a story about a neurotic
hitman and possibly, just possibly, contribute to solving World
Peace?
Read the FoxWell Productions interview
here:
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