My Life in 19 Inches
No, it's not a penis joke, this weekend I saw a test run of Craig's (of Craig's Variety Show) one man show, "My Life in 19 inches" this past Saturday. I was feeling kinda crappy before I went down so I wasn't expecting alot. Additionaly most of the one man show's I've seen have been overly self indulgent trips through someone's mental masturbation. The only one man show I've ever really like was MacHomer, but that's a pretty high concept rendition of MacBeth with every role being played by a Simpsons character (how could that fail to please.) So, while I expected good things from Craig, I expected also to give a lot of feedback, as it was a test run.
My expectations, however, were blown out of the water.
It's the story of how Craig's life has been affected by TV. It was mostly funny, but at times sad and uncomforatble. It was a good kind of uncomfortable, because Craig was portraying people who you know you have been at some point in your life: the inadvertly hurtful kid at school, or the patronizing person at a party. I think that's what made it successful, that it wasn't self stiumulating rather it was explaining, it was illuminating someone else's perception.
I wanted to get this out because in a couple months Craig's going to bring it to a full stage production, and I will be pushing it. But I wanted to make it clear that I am supporting it (in the future) because it really is that good.
Comments
You definately have something. I said Saturday, this is what we should be putting on TV.
Posted by: Craig at August 1, 2005 10:59 AM