Esoteric Kreskinned
Photograph from Fringe NZ - Canadian actors D’Arcy Smith and Andrea Tutt star in the comic tale, Kreskinned.
Recently in select theatres, the movie The Great Buck Howard opened. Has anyone had a chance to see it yet? It looks hopeless for me to view it on the large screen (unless I make it a hallmark of a trip). Alas, I am destine to wait for the DVD release, sit here, drink my Earl Grey green tea, and find something else esoteric to discuss this gloomy Saturday morning.
Kreskin is a good topic as Buck Howard is that sort of character, seems like a fine substitute. Hmmm. I cannot quite get my mind wrapped around the idea of spending an hour or two finding links and such about that most fascinating man, so lets step back and look at the fringe. Literally.
At the recent Wellington Fringe Festival, the Homeless Moose Theatre Company presented a play by Michael Healy called Kreskinned - The Natural Canadian Date Drug. On the Fringe site, the teaser reads:
A comedy asking the important question, what if you could hypnotize your partner into forgetting every time you’ve done something wrong?
In answer to their question: OMG, why did I not think of that? LOL. I suspect the main problem would be knowing exactly when you do something wrong.
Basically (and from just what I have read about the play without seeing it or reading the script), this play is about two people who are more or less set-up by a mutual friend. They are given tickets to a hypnosis show and both volunteer to be hypnotized. Both are given silly (probably cliche) activities that are triggered by specific words. The hypnotist does not remove the trigger words. Yes, you see it coming, do you not? After the show and on a real date, the female protagonist discovers her date’s word. A side effect of the triggered word is that he forgets everything that happens once the word triggers his response. Apparently she finds great relationship potential in this and uses it to her advantage…then he apparently discovers her trigger word.
Hmmmm….
Well anyway, it sounds entertaining. Possible? Maybe.
Tags: Homeless Moose Theatre Company, Kreskinned, The Great Buck Howard, Wellington Fringe Festival
