I haven't seen it, so this is not a review, but I would like to see it. Kristoffer Diaz's satiric stage play
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity brings together three things I love: wrestling, theatre, and social critique (I quote
Los Angeles Times reviewer Charles McNulty: "Diaz finds in the flamboyant, carefully stage-managed fakery of professional wrestling a metaphor for a modern-day America sold out to corporate values and perpetually paranoid about racial otherness"--and, one hopes, it has something to say about homophobia, too). The comedy was one of four finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in drama last year (
Next to Normal took the prize), and the reviews I've read (from Chicago and LA) indicate that the wrestling scenes are every bit as daring, aggressive, and spectacular as I might hope.
Anybody seen it? Tell me about it.
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