Experimental or avant-garde theatre

[Barrister]

You can never go wrong with a Naked Gun line.

[jimmy olsen]

When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of a park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's my policy.

You finally came up with a good one.

FINALLY.

Thanks.

[Ed Anger]

Now of course, when you post a Spacely Sprockets Jetsons pic when the joke is running in a Sprockets-SNL direction again, I'm gonna verbally rape you.

[Valmy]

When it is good it is good.  Unfortunately I think most avant garde people think if people think it is good there must be something conventional or wrong with their work. 

I say yea.

[Malthus]

Good experimental theatre can be very good, but it is very hit-and-miss, with misses outnumbering hits. Entertainment for those with the time and energy to do serious research on what is good and what is not, and willing to risk wasting an evening or three having some asshole yell at you dressed in saran wrap.

Dunno if it counts as "experimental", but I've been following this play-cycle, which would be of particular interest to Oex:

http://www.videocab.com/index.html

It is very good - a series on, of all things, Canadian history; and very, very funny. The "experimental" aspect is that it is performed in a very tiny space - the stage is the size of a closet, yet they are able, using lighting and minimal props, to stage an entire play in that space.

[Pedrito]

HULK SMASH!

L.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Sounds like if I saw it I'd want everyone involved terminated with Xtreme prejudice.

[Malthus]

HULK SMASH!

L.

... which, ironically enough, would make for experimental theatre. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

It depends really on the piece. I tend to go by word of mouth from friends with any play.

[Caliga]

... which, ironically enough, would make for experimental theatre. 

I didn't think of that, but I did put the quote about the Browning in there specifically because it originated as a line from a play (forget which though).

[Valmy]

It depends really on the piece. I tend to go by word of mouth from friends with any play.

So how do you decide who sees it first among your friends?

[Malthus]

... which, ironically enough, would make for experimental theatre. 

I didn't think of that, but I did put the quote about the Browning in there specifically because it originated as a line from a play (forget which though).

Found it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst

When the Nazis achieved power in 1933, Johst wrote the play Schlageter, an expression of Nazi ideology performed on Hitler's birthday to celebrate his victory. It was a heroic biography of the proto-Nazi martyr Albert Leo Schlageter. The line "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun", often associated with Nazi leaders, derives from this play. The original line is slightly different: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning," "Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!" (Act 1, Scene 1).

[Martinus]

Inspired by this thread, I went to a modernized version of Picture of Dorian Gray. Harry was a macho clubber, Basil was a washed-out aging queen, etc. It was rather disappointing, except for the fact that the actor playing Dorian Gray was hot and got completely naked. I was sitting in the first row, so his balls were hanging in front of my face when he was doing some sort of a monologue. 

Avant-garde theatre:

[CountDeMoney]

I've got tix to Chaz Palminteri's "A Bronx Tale" next week.  Nothing like experimental, avant-garde Mob theatre.

[Caliga]

I was sitting in the first row, so his balls were hanging in front of my face when he was doing some sort of a monologue. 

You should have started sucking them.