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"i left the theater tingling"

"i laughed so hard my glasses flew off my head into the lap of the person behind me"

Aug 08, 2024
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Fat Ham.

you’re welcome.

it’s coming to the little theater near you, please go. bring grandma.

This play was the great gift of a pandemic that was hard on my laugh-hard-next-to-a-thousand-strangers-in-a-sealed-room industry. It sold out large theaters and now it will make the rounds of small ones. Please go. Bring everyone you know.

I have seen it five times now, and am finally putting this rhinestone encrusted skull of a show in the ground and I leaving it there.

I am saying goodbye to it because I want to bring great theater to schools and schools to great theater.

…and I have yet to meet an English teacher that welcomes a show that opens with porn sound cues, follows with full-body porn-like gestures, and closes with an awesome monologue about….porn!

(yes. you remember correctly that I did bring my 12 year old. he loved it. said, “i hear so much worse than this in middle school every day, mom.”)

(if you know an English teacher that would teach Hamlet paired with this porn-heavy adapta…

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