The Marx Brothers Duck Soup, 1933, is available to rent on all the usual platforms (Google play, itunes, Vudu, etc) and Clue, 1985, can be found to rent in the same haunts…unless it’s found by Colonel Mustard in the study with the Candlestick!! …or God forbid, Mrs. The Diplomats runs at the EXIT Theater Thursday, to Saturday, May 28, 2016. With these two comedic gold film recommendations, you can assume The Diplomats will be a pretty raucous time. “Clue…Fast paced, lots of crazy characters, an ending that’s up for interpretation…Clue”Īlways with the brevity, Tavis. Rolling along to the next great suggestion Bay Area actor and favorite middle school Theater teacher of all time, Tavis Kammet, had this to say for his film pairing suggestion: Harpo and his evil face might be my favorite. This play is based on a true incident, and it is all at once ridiculous and frightening. The farce element is a major driving force of the play, along with random acts by random characters at random times, to underline the very real and bizarre nature of diplomatic proceedings. Their brand of humor in general is a good fit. The Marx Brothers type of humor and nutso situations are very much up the alley and tone of The Diplomats.
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I would say that that Duck Soup would be a great movie pairing with The Diplomats.
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She had this 80 plus year old classic film suggestion that remains hilarious after all these years:
Let us start with the wondrous Karen Offereins. I had the pleasure of speaking with two fine actors featured in the show, Karen Offereins & Tavis Kammet, and wouldn’t you know, they had two excellent film suggestions to get you in the headspace of The Diplomats. L-R Karen Offereins, Tavis Kammet, Dan Kurtz, Ryan Hayes, Margery Fairchild, Courtney Merrell. The Diplomats, written and directed by Martin Schwartz, is described by Dark Porch as a play which “… showcases the ways in which politics are theatrical and laughter is political.” Sounds exactly like the best way to enjoy political bumbling! Especially our art.ĭark Porch Theater is premiering a new play, The Diplomats, at the EXIT Theater early next month and if you are looking for a political landscape littered with jokes, this may be your jam. I’m not sure what the true distinctions are between real news and fake news and comedy news and The Onion news anymore, but I will say if I can get my nightly news with a side of satire and a garnish of hilarity, I’ll take it! Political talk trickles into every aspect of our adult lives. Who knew! But, if you turn that political bent into a performance, a play or a film (maybe one that still gets play 80 odd years after it was made), well, you could be on to something there. It turns out strangers online actually do not care about your individual political opinions. chuckle when a dumb Trump Meme arrives in the news feed. And I guess it’s not all bad… after all the rhetoric and all the online rants, I still get a 1 a.m. Social commentary and criticism has existed as long as we’ve had civilization to criticize. Ah yes, I forgot, we live in the age of the 24 hour news cycle and 24/7 social media update.
Politics! How much longer do we have to hear the constant barrage of political rummaging, commentary, jokes, lampooning, diatribes and all too serious sidebars? What’s that now? At least until November? Sheeeesh! Oh wait…what’s that you say? Political complaining and satire actually will continue long after that? Sheit. This week Will Leschber talks Dark Porch Theater’s The Diplomats and tosses in a little, Clue & Duck Soup for seasoning…