"The Mystery of Irma Vep" Mini-Review

Review of ATC’s Production of The Mystery of Irma Vep

by Marc Hansen

ATC’s production of The Mystery of Irma Vep is funny, random, and a total crowd pleaser. It’s not very high brow - a lot of the jokes are sexual, crude and/or over the top, yet it’s still more sophisticated than the raunchy, potty jokes of our modern Hangover type comedies. Yet surprisingly, the typically older, more mature theatre crowd responded really well to the humor. That’s probably due to the dedication of the actors, Bob Sorenson and Oliver Wadsworth, who were hilarious and became so enveloped into their many characters that they made the ridiculousness somehow work.

Grade: B

And that's all for this season, folks! See you next year!

Two More Poems

The Future America (Couplet)

All these young people, filled with hope

Will turn into burnouts, addicts of dope

Never Let You Go (Ballad)

The smile you wear lightens my mood

Your luscious lips I taste

A day with you's a dream come true

Let's not leave it to waste

A Not So Offensive Poem I Also Wrote

Okay here is the last poem I wrote on Friday, but I had to put it in its own post, because this one's not offensive at all :P It is a haiku though, a haiku about Tucson.

Haiku for Tucson

The trees have no leaves

Cacti populate the land

Sand is nature too

Some Mildly Offensive Poems I Wrote

So in Creative Writing, we're in our poetry unit at the moment. I've never been a big fan of poetry and I'm a terrible poet, but we wrote these poems in class the other day and I'm actually pretty proud of them (well not that proud, but I think they're enjoyable, or at least enjoyable enough to put on this blog). They're also all comedic, mildly offensive poems. I was actually trying to write genuine poems at first, but then these came out. I wonder what that says about me. Anyways here they are (and I really don't have anything against Haiti or Japan; I just thought they were funny).

Adolescence (this one is a Limerick)

You life starts out as a baby

You were born in the country of Haiti

An earthquake struck

You're shit out of luck

Now reaching age five is a maybe

Japan (this is a List Poem)

Japan

Toyko

Lights

Swords

Dragons

Emperors

Kurosawa

Samurais

Ancient Legends

Asian People

Tourists

Sushi

Atomic Bombs

Nature

Trees

Lakes

Haikus

Tsunamis

This is what I love about Japan

Okay, this is my favorite one. It's a diamonte poem, and it's actually well written, not just offensive.

Men and Women

Men

Emotional, Complicated

Doing, Making, Achieving

Courteous, Elegant, Success, Beauty

Burping, Farting, Eating

Apathetic, Simple

Women

Thanks for reading! :D