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- From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
- Subject: Re: Kids in the Hall humor sick and jaded?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <2B449712.3B57@telly.on.ca> <C07t5I.6GC@ecf.toronto.edu> <Jan.2.09.39.19.1993.9329@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:28:28 GMT
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- In article <Jan.2.09.39.19.1993.9329@pilot.njin.net> langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein) writes:
- >In article <C07t5I.6GC@ecf.toronto.edu> sungr@ecf.toronto.edu (SUNG RICHARD) writes:
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- >> Evan Leibovitch writes:
- >> >I personally don't find much funny about dressing in drag. I didn't care
-
- >> I don't particularly find anything funny about dressing in drag
- >> either. Do they rely heavily on it in Kids? Perhaps... but more
- >> for its necessity than for its comedic effect. For the most part,
- >> they try to play women as "realistically" as possible.
-
- As a woman, I can say they succeed VERY well! After seeing some of the
- skits they've done, I had to double check to see if they were written
- by women (they weren't). These guys are brilliant.
-
- >Remember, there are NO female cast members. I actually think that they
- >do an EXCELLENT job playing the women's parts in the tradition of
- >classic Shakespearian Theater. FYI, Shakespearian theater had no
- >female actresses 'in the olden days', so men played the parts. Here is
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- Neither did Japanese Kabuki (sp?) theater.
-
- >an ensemble that has no women, and they are not doing drag for the
- >humor sake as much as there are no women in the core ensemble.
-
- Exactly. These guys are good enough that the lack is not felt at all
- IMHO.
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