What I liked
The Nonsemble’s teamwork in portraying all of these stories through the same directors, writers, and actors. Considering the group has been working together for 20ish years I assume this is second nature to them. It is entertaining to see how much camaraderie and chemistry these actors have with each other across these different settings.
What I didn't like
Hard to say. There were a few jokes and sequences that didn’t land for me, but that sort of feeds into the nature of this play. If you get the joke, you relate in some way. If you don’t get the joke, sucks for you.
Fortunately, I laughed at most of the jokes.
My overall impression
There is nothing “subtle” about this play and that’s what makes it immensely fun. Perhaps it’s wrong to think this way too strictly, but the fact that so many of the actors were aged and elderly yet hold such progressive ideas and acting limitations was hugely uplifting. While this is mostly a sketch comedy for quick laughs, I appreciated how normalized sexual freedom, deviancy, and identity were in these shorts. Rather than being laughed at, we were laughing with the actors portraying these strange eccentricities. (except for Maura Swanson’s conservative characters in the Bible Study and the Sub obviously)
Wonderful show, it’s great to see how synergistic your writers and cast were in the creation of all these shorts.
