Monday, April 18, 2005

If you are thinking, that should be safe, then you should think twice…

Freeman’s friend, Jay’s, girlfriend’s (Kat) birthday was Saturday. 
As Jay & Kat live South of Seattle, they thought it would be great to come to “The City” for Kat’s birthday.  Freeman promptly put me in charge of finding something for all of us to do as he feels I am good at finding “unusual” things for us to do.
I was happy to do some searching and was coming up with suggestions.  I gave Kat a call and she said she would like to see a play.  Hmmm… a play.  That put a different spin on things as I was mostly thinking a comedy club was in order.
So I started searching for plays, theaters, and various other things we could do.  I came across this:  Umo.org and thought, perfect.  They were doing a “Radical Aerial Telling” of Repunzel.  I distinctly remember thinking “Repunzel, we should be safe with that, after all what could they do with a fairy tale like that?  And an aerial Telling, that should be fun!”
Uh huh. 
Apparently they can twist the story so that Repunzel and the Evil Witch have an affair.  Then they can have the prince come in and, well, get involved with both Repunzel and the Witch.  The telling was fraught with sexual innuendos between all of the actors.  To top it all off there were some great acrobatics performed. 
I enjoyed the show, and everyone insisted they did as well.  I was concerned when I looked over at Kat, only to see her mouth hanging open in shock.  She recovered, though, and I think she had a good time.
Of course, next time Freeman puts me in charge of “finding something for us to do” they will be well aware of what they are getting into