Audio By Carbonatix
A slapstick spoof of a propaganda film that’s slapstick to begin with — albeit unintentionally — Reefer Madness is a tricky little play. It’s also a very good one. Writers’ Studney and Murphy’s best idea was to allow their funny little musical to remain as scary to modern audiences as Reefer Madness must have seemed to the gullible, back in the day. Songs parodying 1930s credulousness and conservatism give way to scenes of hypnotically troubling imagery — dismembered limbs, abandoned babies singing for their mothers, and the rape of teenagers being some of the noteworthy motifs. Rising Action could have mixed its sound a little better, and some of the singers could benefit from more training, but Reefer Madness remains an evening of good, weird fun.
Sat., April 10, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 11, 3 p.m., 2010
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