Monday, May 31, 2010


The PIT is a decent little space devoted to sketch comedy in many forms and keeps a schedule of a great variety of performances that rotate and change from day to day. Among the recent offerings (and likely to return) was DYSTOPIA GARDENS, a sketch-play send-up of the future. This future is in the spirit of the genre of dystopian films like BRAZIL and LOGAN’S RUN with a little help from George Orwell. Creators Jerry Miller and Will Nunziata have produced, costumed, written, directed and performed twenty characters in this very funny hour long entertainment about a mythical future in a bubble protected city on a scorched earth. The series of vignettes, held together with original music, crazy sounds and video interludes of a Big Brother inspired host, cover topics of future living such as waiting in line for services, ordering fast food, brainwashing and human waste disposal (i.e. toilet humor). By hook or by crook the team has ingeniously assembled humorous and effective costumes made out of supplies from what looks to be the 99 cent store. They play kids, women and the various male characters of the world in a “Kids in the Hall” kind of way, which adds a layer of laughs over the clever sketches infused with an insightful humor in situations ripe for parody. Multileveled humor is the key to this inspired work, for it is both low burlesque and high minded satire. The show is self-described as “sex in a pool of funny” and that just about says it all. Moreover, the two actors are fearless and shameless in a “can’t believe they went there” kind of way. When they bring their version of the future back to The PIT, it is more than worth the $10 ticket price to spend an hour in DYSTOPIA GARDENS.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Dude,

    This is Will Nunziata from Dystopia Gardens. Thanks for the write up!

    Out of curiousity, how did you find out about it?

    thanks so much! We should be back in the fall. Will let you know!

    will.zone@gmail.com
    http://dystopiagardens.tumblr.com

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