Felt Like I'd been had.


A Behanding in Spokane on Sunday, Mar 7th, 2010

Felt like I'd been had.
This play was like one long Saturday Night Live skit starring Chris Walken. With Walken parodying himself in a big way. It was stupid and after reading this mornings NYT interview with McDonaugh, I really feel like a double chump spending my money on this weak play. He seems to have figured out that using the F bomb once or twice is no longer shocking on stage so his solution is to have his characters say F*** FIVE times a sentence EVERY sentence for ninety minutes straight. Maybe he thought that would be just so funny. Not. Though the teenage boys behind me were yukking up a storm and afterward said how great the bad language was. Yeah.... I imagine this is the audience McDonaugh was hoping to please. As I said, Walken was a parody of his weird self, the black guy played scared so over the top he reminded me of Buckwheat grown up. The girl was unremarkable and the only interesting character was the reception guy. Save your money. .

A Behanding in Spokane on Sunday, Mar 7th, 2010