| laboratory. Koch's Postulate features Typhoid Mary as the live-in chef of Dr. Koch, the scientist who identifies the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her cooking. In its up-to-the-minute, comic book, Katzenjammer style, Koch's Postulate balances the beauties of art and the dangers of science in a murderously funny comedy of cooking and eating for four unforgettable characters. |
"... darkly hilarious and brilliantly creepy."
Village Voice |
"Schenkar is an original: her narrative drive springs from menace."
Time Out (London) |
| In this brilliant and timely comedy of menace, a post-war Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a Jewish retirement community in Florida, surrounded by the people they so recently tried to exterminate. This dazzling language-opera is staged as a 1940s radio broadcast complete with announcers, commercials for Rinso-Blue, and a "How to Cook a Kosher Chicken" show in which much more than the kosher chicken is cooked. It features singing and dancing Russian nurses, Edgar BergenCharlie MacCarthy routines with a talking skeleton, the psychoanalysis of Adolf Hitler by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and a radio appearance by the Dionne Quintuplets. |
| The Universal Wolf, one of the most-produced comedies in colleges and little the-aters for the last two years, is the quintessential send-up of both the Little Red Riding Hood tale and modern French criticism. Featuring the Wolf as a French Structuralist, Grandmother as a retired butcher with a very good cutting arm, Little Red Riding Hood as the insufferable brat everyone wants to eat, and a role for the Audience, The Universal Wolf delivers a side-splitting comedy for four characters that has delighted theatergoers across the country and around the world. |
| An entirely new and fiercely comedic reinvention of the story of Joan of Arc: this time Joan is a teenager in 1950s Seattle, where it's far too wet to burn her. She drives a Triumph convertible, goes on the warpath with a fabulous Native American Princess, and is advised by those mid-twentieth-century icons, Saint Marlene Dietrich, Saint Gertrude Stein, Saint Emily Bront, and Saint Emily Dickinson. Featuring mad doctors, bad girl and boy scouts, and a teen-aged Gilles de Raix, Burning Desires is a wonderfully rollicking and literate comedy for all ages. |
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