Bitter tears
The mrs and myself went to see a student production at her college of something called The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. It's a play that was clearly very shocking and daring when it was written, as it features an old lady in a lesbian relationship with her maid and it's all very deep and emotional and whatnot.

Except that we just found it ridiculous. The poor girl playing the lead role was acting her socks off, throwing herself on the bed and crying 'You maaaayke me vaaant to pyuuuke' at anyone who would listen and the more desperate and heartbroken she became, the more we laughed. Finally my dear lady laughed so hard a fart came out, and that was the end of us. We collapsed in hysterics and couldn't stop.

I felt bad for the actress - she was working so hard with a shonky script. On other nights people went to see it and were raving to us about how brilliant she was, but they were all actors so their opinion can't be taken seriously.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)