Show: 2 Sugars, Room for Cream
Company: Shanan Wexler & Carolyn Pool
Venue: UofM Rarig Center Xperimental ("X")
Die Roll: 7
I already wrote a little bit about this show in the preview article I wrote about comedies here.
I put it in my top five for a reason. This was a really good show. It's all vignettes about different women and the scenes all revolve around situations that involve coffee in some way. That doesn't mean that coffee is the topic of all of the sketches, but it means that there is coffee in at least one of the actresses hands at all times. Well... in a mug or cup in one of their hands.
Scenes range from a church basement during a funeral where sisters are drinking coffee and avoiding relatives, to a "coffee break" outside a corporate workplace, to a mother who vents to a stranger about how her infant child's head is too small (the stranger has a cup of coffee). The comedy is the type that comes out of the beautiful ironies of real life. It is the comedy that we all can identify with right away and laugh at ourselves as much as at the people on the stage. This type of comedy, when well done (and in this case it is), can be a unifying thing between audience and performers. What a treat!
Not everything was all laughter, though. One monologue by Carolyn Pool was especially moving. It's a story about the first time she tried Espresso and her relationship with her dad. I was in tears and I was noticing others in the audience daubing their faces dry, as well.
TEN WORD SUMMARY: Coffee plays key role in comedy of real life experiences
RATING: d20 - "One of the Best"
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