Light, funny, intriguing, smart and classy. That’s Classic Milds for me. It is a collection of 6 short plays, with no common theme in particular written by legendary playwrights in the hundred years between 1885 and 1985.
Intelligent comedy is a genre of its own. It is also probably the most difficult genre to conceive and enact. The treatment of unique situations is what makes you laugh instead of funny accents, confused make-up or wrongly matched clothes. It is subtle and not on your face. Again, it is intelligent comedy and not “mad-comedy.”
While mad-comedy tends to do really well in our country, with movies like Welcome being big successes; it is rather unfortunate that the rare intelligent comedy kind of entertainment gets unnoticed. I sure hope that plays like this inspire movies too.
Amongst the 6 plays, the best one is saved for last. The Still Alarm by George Kaufman is a beauty while Seduction by Neil Simon is almost as good.
The stories are fantastic, the actors not as good, but even then the experience is very satisfying.
What’s more I got two free tickets on purchasing two. Sold the two that I got free and ended up watching the play free of cost! Thanks to my idiotic mix-up of buying Sunday tickets instead of Saturday’s.
Anyway, all’s well that ends well.
2 comments:
Sounds great :) hope i will catch it some time! Anyway there are some amazing plays in may - got the programme for the month.
Hey catch my review of the one you missed on http://verbalsot.blogspot.com/2010/05/love-on-brink.html
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