MODERN PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE
Back in high school and college there was always a wiseass who could do impressions of our teachers. He’d swagger about like that flamboyant drama instructor, purse his lips and mimic the Latin prof, and then crack his whip and teach swimming like Frau Lazar. Sure, the impressions pretty much sucked, but hell, we weren’t paying for it.
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Now that party topics have graduated to stock options, networking, and the ghastly Tex-Mex-Cajun-style grouper parfait somebody got sick on last week, we might be a little nostalgic for the time when Paulie’s imitation of Madame Durham made us breathless with laughter, when comedy was only a few blocks away in somebody’s basement or dorm room. This seems to be the idea behind theatrical events like Annoyance Theatre’s Modern Problems in Science, a mock interdisciplinary university course with professors whose antics differ only slightly from those of your favorite school goofball.
Modern Problems in Science sets out to provide an irreverent “tell the windbags who think that everything onstage has to be art to go take a flying fuck” approach, and they succeed. If you’re looking to watch three pretty funny guys who think they’re incredibly funny, go for it. Knock yourself out. Better yet, reenroll in high school.
