This evening we went to see Greater Tuna at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo Summerset Theater. (The school is affectionaely called Boo-U around here.) It was very enjoyable and the weather held -- important because it is an outdoor performance.
Greater Tuna is the first in a trilogy of comedic plays (followed by A Tuna Christmas and Red, White and Tuna), each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The plays are at once a satrical and affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes. They are notable in that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages. Greater Tuna debuted in Austin in Fall 1981, and had its off-Broadway premiere in 1982. When George Bush, Sr. was President, there was a command performance at the White House.
I actually saw the second of the three plays -- A Tuna Christmas -- in Washington, DC a few years ago with Steve Payne. I happened to be there for some sort of Carmelite meeting around my birthday, and he got tickets. The two writers, who originally did all the acting, were the performers that time.
Anyway, we had a good time, and Tom even won a Boo-U frisbee in the raffle at intermission.
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