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| SUSPICIOUS CLOWNS and THE RESISTANCE Second City Training Center. Among the Suspicious Clowns sketches in this two-troupe late-night showcase are a medley of movie-ad buzz phrases, a scene featuring a glossolalic farmwife, and another about verbally incompatible lovers, one of whom speaks in recipe instructions, the other in third-person narratives. A househusband confesses to having sex with a lamp--"I could see the signs!" laments his spouse, staring in horror at the placards adorning the guilty parties. Language is a theme, but so is body language: Vincent Truman plays the proprietor of a shop selling mime supplies, and later he and Jeb Cadwell, portraying Hindu mystics, duel to determine who's the more ascetic of the two. ¶ The Resistance, the evening's opening act, fares less well. This improv ensemble consists of six men and a lone woman whose contribution consists of little more than set decoration. The result is a quasi-unisex show that blurs the distinction between female and effeminate male characters, which makes comprehending already dubious premises even more difficult. --Mary Shen Barnidge | |||
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