Friday, December 15, 2017

A different theater experience.

I attended the Arena Dinner Theater's production of "Peter and the Starcatcher" this evening.  The dinner was traditional; salad with French dressing, beef and noodles, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and cake. All very tasty but not particularly imaginative.  The play, on the other hand, was quite imaginative.  It was the story of how a poor, mistreated orphan boy became Peter Pan.  A wildly slapstick performance of a cute story.  The mermaid scene (with all of the pirates and sailors portraying the mermaids) was a sight I hope will fade from my memory with time.  The play was full of slightly skewed 'one liners'. One of my favorites was "No man is an archepelago." (Maybe you had to be there.)  One of my favorite bits in the play involved the pirate captain accidentally cutting his hand off and then running through a list of things he will now never be able to do.  Most memorable "I shall never be a satisfactory juggler."  It was quite a play.

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