Minutes to Curtain

Five Bridesmaids find comfort and camaraderie  while doing everything they can to avoid the wedding reception. And then two dudes talk about it for around an hour. This week's play is "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress", by Alan Ball. 

The world's second-worst podcasters tackle the story of England's second-best hangman: Hangmen, by Martin McDonagh.  

How do you solve a problem like attempted murder? The boys discuss Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley. A play about three women who can't get what they want, don't want what they have, and bury their feelings under a mountain of sugar. 

Dillon gets way too horny and Andy can't stop applying lotion to his creaky bits. The boys discuss "Rhinoceros", by Eugene Ionesco and try desperately to ignore the elephant...err...pachyderm in the room. 

There exists a timeline in which Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein once met each other at a pub in Paris, or, at least that's as likely as anything else that might happen. The boys discuss Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin and reveal an astonishing lack of knowledge about both Art and Physics. Enjoy!

The boys discuss an American classic from Tennessee Williams about high society, repressed sexuality, and of course...mendacity. 

The boys discuss the pros and cons of accidentally kidnapping a woman and forcing her to marry you. There are no pros.

This is a vaguely meta description of a predictably meta podcast which discusses an aggressively meta play. "Stupid F***ing Bird" written by Aaron Posner in 2013, based on Anton Checkov's 1896 play, "The Seagull". The boys use the F-word a lot. It's in the title. We were basically forced to do it.  

It becomes clear that the Miscreants recorded this podcast several months in advance. The boys discuss The Long Christmas Ride Home, by Paula Vogel. 

The Miscreants discuss the rare horror stage play: The Woman in Black, as adapted by Stephen Mallatratt.