Post modern. There’s a notion you don’t often hear in a show review. But what this play is, above all, trying to do, is become a post modern piece; one where they allude again and again to what they are doing, what they are trying to accomplish, without realising that they are miles away of succeeding.
Example: the main character, Richard Sandling, runs a VHS rental store. He is, according to one of the characters, a ‘fat, geek, that thinks he’s always right’. Turns out, he is indeed just that, and all his rants on why VHS is better than DVD are nothing more than annoying monologues, prolonged till the joke looses all momentum.
Second example: the show starts with the video screening of a New York skyline at dusk, cheesy jazz music and cheap title sequence. Later on during the play, they mention that, any movie that starts in such a way, will be, undoubtedly, bad. Well, who knew that it also applied to plays?
By mentioning themselves, in a post modern way, the errors of their show become all but apparent, and one can not stop wondering why if they can identify what doesn’t work, they don’t attempt to fix it.
All is not lost, though. The two girls, who appear on stage for less that 20 minutes, are kind of amusing, and it is nothing but a shame that the ‘fat, geek, that thinks he’s always right’ doesn’t close his mouth long enough to let them say two sentences
1/5
Adrian G. Velazquez
