Genre:
Comedy-Drama
Written by: Kris Andersson
Directed by: Thomas Caruso
Performed by: Kris Andersson
Running time: One hour, 30 minutes
Web site: dixielongate.com
Deep Southern housewives selling microwavable plastic to strangers is a funny idea and Dixie's Tupperware Party aims to keep you focused on this fact. It shrieks it in "Gawd bless America" red-state twang, coifs it with a Miss Alabama bouffant and throws in references to hick-on-pig barnyard action and liquor for breakfast. But in the end, it's all too easy and the show's reliance on an urban audience to laugh at anything rural-kitsch makes it obvious and forgettable. Kris Andersson's high-wattage delivery helps keep things moving, and his deft disposal of one irritating heckler was a highlight (perhaps he should hire the guy). Ultimately though, trailer trash stick-on humor is guaranteed to get laughs so without real cleverness to bolster it, Dixie's starts to feel like a sales pitch for a product that you already own too much of. Will Doig
Where: Plaza Cafe Theater, Pace University
When: Sat, Aug 14 at noon; Sun, Aug 15 at 10:15 p.m.;
Tue, Aug 17 at 7:15 p.m.; Sun, Aug 22 at 7:15 p.m.; Wed, Aug 25
at 6:45 p.m.; Fri, Aug 27 at 3 p.m.; Sat, Aug 28 at 4:45 p.m.
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