Spring Break
Throat culture: 24-hour show pleases with lesbian humor
Issue date: 10/30/08
Campus sketch comedy team Throat Culture delivered a solid show this weekend that, in the expected Throat Culture style, sometimes bordered on the ridiculous.
The group's show was particularly impressive considering that it was entirely put together in the 24 hours preceding the performance. The 24-hour format was a bona fide showcase of the writing and acting talent of the theater group.
It entailed Throat Culture writers meeting on Friday evening at 10 p.m. to create 10 scripts based on ideas contributed by students on Facebook. Actors then had until Saturday at 8 p.m. to learn their parts Â- but at times they were forced to resort to improvisational acting.
The danger of letting the play's script depend on the whims of Facebook frequenters was very clear in this show. Out of about 40 suggestions posted on the Throat Culture Facebook wall, almost half dealt with lesbians and sexual perversions. In turn, most of the plays had lesbians and crazy sexual material.
The first sketch, "Bath and Body Works," was based on ideas offered by senior Ryan Bloom. It established Bath and Body Works as a "safe haven for lesbians" where two lesbians proceed to sniff perfume and rub lotions all over themselves.
Meanwhile, three men burst onto the scene in a hysterical search for sexual gratification with their makeshift Gaydar - a bulb plus cellphone - beeping along in their hunt for lesbian sex. When they fail to find the lesbians in Bath and Body Works, they move on to Victoria's Secret. The play seemed too short and the script seemed slightly dull, but the acting was redeeming for the sketch.
The show quickly shifted to the best sketch of the night, "Gregory K. Featherington Gives Advice in the Least Helpful Way Possible." The title says it all about the pompous, tea-sipping, leg-crossing eponymous fellow who sits in his chair with a dainty British accent and comments on the various situations that are presented to him on the other side of stage.
The group's show was particularly impressive considering that it was entirely put together in the 24 hours preceding the performance. The 24-hour format was a bona fide showcase of the writing and acting talent of the theater group.
It entailed Throat Culture writers meeting on Friday evening at 10 p.m. to create 10 scripts based on ideas contributed by students on Facebook. Actors then had until Saturday at 8 p.m. to learn their parts Â- but at times they were forced to resort to improvisational acting.
The danger of letting the play's script depend on the whims of Facebook frequenters was very clear in this show. Out of about 40 suggestions posted on the Throat Culture Facebook wall, almost half dealt with lesbians and sexual perversions. In turn, most of the plays had lesbians and crazy sexual material.
The first sketch, "Bath and Body Works," was based on ideas offered by senior Ryan Bloom. It established Bath and Body Works as a "safe haven for lesbians" where two lesbians proceed to sniff perfume and rub lotions all over themselves.
Meanwhile, three men burst onto the scene in a hysterical search for sexual gratification with their makeshift Gaydar - a bulb plus cellphone - beeping along in their hunt for lesbian sex. When they fail to find the lesbians in Bath and Body Works, they move on to Victoria's Secret. The play seemed too short and the script seemed slightly dull, but the acting was redeeming for the sketch.
The show quickly shifted to the best sketch of the night, "Gregory K. Featherington Gives Advice in the Least Helpful Way Possible." The title says it all about the pompous, tea-sipping, leg-crossing eponymous fellow who sits in his chair with a dainty British accent and comments on the various situations that are presented to him on the other side of stage.
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