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Noises Off
Apr. 23rd, 2009 11:48 pmThe classic farce Noises Off is playing at the Hartford Stage for the next few weeks, and given the economy they are apparently desperate to get people in. We went Thursday night, taking my nephew and a friend of his, as we had gotten him a ticket to the show as a Christmas present and then there was a serious cut rate if we purchased 4 tickets.
We had previously taken him to see Midsummer Nights Dream, which he found very confusing and hard to follow, but since this was a stright up comedy written in contemporary English he and his friend had a much better time. And we enjoyed the heck out of it ourselves. If you have a little extra cash I recommend supporting the arts.
Of course, the strange part of the evening was dinner with Mike and his "just friends" prom date - for some reason Mike started peppering me with questions on everything - what's with the 2012 business (necessitating an explanation of Mayan cosmology), are there aliens out there (requiring a digression into Fermi's paradox, with a further digression into the Manhattan Project), is there really a bigfoot ("do you really want me to go into Cryptozoology?"), when will the sun explode (forcing me to discuss fusion temperatures of hydrogen and helium), and we somehow included a discussion of vertical and horozontal integration and business practices. I don't quite know how or why he decided on this as a dinnertable tactic, but since he happened to be asking about things I knew I was able to look really smart.
We had previously taken him to see Midsummer Nights Dream, which he found very confusing and hard to follow, but since this was a stright up comedy written in contemporary English he and his friend had a much better time. And we enjoyed the heck out of it ourselves. If you have a little extra cash I recommend supporting the arts.
Of course, the strange part of the evening was dinner with Mike and his "just friends" prom date - for some reason Mike started peppering me with questions on everything - what's with the 2012 business (necessitating an explanation of Mayan cosmology), are there aliens out there (requiring a digression into Fermi's paradox, with a further digression into the Manhattan Project), is there really a bigfoot ("do you really want me to go into Cryptozoology?"), when will the sun explode (forcing me to discuss fusion temperatures of hydrogen and helium), and we somehow included a discussion of vertical and horozontal integration and business practices. I don't quite know how or why he decided on this as a dinnertable tactic, but since he happened to be asking about things I knew I was able to look really smart.
