Super!

The main thing I want to talk about that happened yesterday was that I went to a play put on my the Drama Society. It was an improvisational play, where various things the audience suggested would become part of the story. It was entitled "Super!" and featured the adventures of a young UC student who became a....SUPER HERO! In the case of the play I saw, young Henry Hay was bitten by a radioactive ferret in his calculus class (the ferret was my suggestion, the class was not) prompting him to become FERRETMAN! He then used his powers to fight crime and save intrepid campus reporter Susan Superfluous from the evil Taxidermist and his evil army of trespassers, as well as thwart the Taxidermist's plot to steal the corpse of Ulysees S Grant from his tomb with a plunger and the help of former NZ prime minister Helen Clark to lead a ZOMBIE ARMY against the world. I was impressed with all the actors for being able to create a fairly plausible and coherent storyline from such disparate elements. The narrator (a deadpan guy smoking a pipe in a suit) didn't get much response when he solicited answers, so he generally went with the first thing he heard, which wasn't that great sometimes. The tomb of Ulysees S Grant was way too obscure a location for the evil villain to attack, for instance, which was especially bad since he had to guess his plan, as he was deliberately offstage when the narrator solicited ideas. But the actor playing the Taxidermist was very good at working all of the weird crap together to make something that made at least some sense. Also of note was a fight scene between Ferretman and the Taxidermist under a blacklight, which was awesome and rediculous. All in all, a great and awesome play. I look forward to DramaSoc other productions in the future.