Nipple-Twist Your Dickens
A KBNB Kristmas Karol has eight stooges.
Juxtaposition is the name of the game here. The twilight of radio faces the rise of visual broadcasting in the story’s background, the set design casts a pall of sparse dereliction over a zany holiday comedy, and 1940s character archetypes riff on everything from Citizen Kane and Knute Rockne to Scooby-Doo and Jon-Erik Hexum.
And it works, as the Hillsboro cast of eight tempers the verbose, extremely fast-paced farce with nonstop visual interplay and innuendo. They constantly collide (usually hand-to-breast) and fill the stage with raunchy sight gags in aKarol that boasts dropped pants aplenty, a three-girl nipple-twisting routine and at least six pelvic thrusts in the first act. They manage to sing a few Christmas songs, too!
by MIKE GALLUCCI.
see it: A KBNB Kristmas Karol is at the Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 693-3953. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday (also 7:30 pm shows Dec. 21-23). Through Dec. 23. $27-$32.
I saw this today, and found the energy top notch.
Yes it’s slapstick, but very enjoyable. Now I have
not seen many plays but am mainly a movie buff.
I see many movies that most people never get to
see.
I was entertained fully and would recommend this
to all adults.