A Bloody Disappointment
Rating: 1
Sorority House of the Dead
The Coterie Theatre
I was thoroughly excited for the Ron McGee double feature (Sorority House of the Dead and Young Frankenstein) on Monday the 25th at the Living Room. However, I left sorely disappointed by the first performance (though the staged reading that followed was a complete riot and very well received).
While the show had its moments, it was about an hour longer than it needed to be. They could have gotten the point across AND all of the successful jokes out in a mere 30 minutes. However, I did very much enjoy the dance sequences and crazy 80s styles.
Also, the space had a splatter zone in the front row. The audience was not warned of this until the house manager started passing out plastic to hold in front of them. I heard several complaints from these patrons who wouldn't have minded sitting in a splatter zone, if they had only been aware that that was where they were only made aware of it before hand. The fake blood was only water that they didn't even bother to color red, but I still consider it a common courtesy to advertise the fact that the audience members would be getting wet. There was also a character that swung fake limbs around, sometimes in his teeth, in order to spray more "blood". However, a woman in the front row was actually hit in the face with an arm. I doubt that she paid $10 for that.
I guess that after seeing Evil Dead, there is just no appreciating other horror spoofs on stage.
read the review at KC Stage
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