February 29, 2008

arrow ROGUE REVIEW: I'm Sorry, I Love You

With a name like FresYes TheaterWorks, you might be expecting a Chamber-of-Commerce-approved production of sunny innocence.

Um, no.

I'm Sorry, I Love You, an original collection of three ten-minute plays about love, sex and relationships, is a raucous and wild ride. Stuffed to the gills with wit, profanity and general overall content that might be grounds for capital punishment in certain Southern states, this laugh-fest teeters between sophisticated absurdism and cheerful depravity.

The first of the three sketches, "For Better Or Worse," written by Elliott Montgomery, features a bride and groom (a very fun Jordan Roberts and Brittany Downs) on their wedding night. She has a confession to make -- and it's a whopper.

The second installment, titled "Love, Lust, and Late Fees," written by Mark Wilson, gives us a glimpse of a couple (Roberts and Moira Leslie) with some definite relationship woes.

And finally, in a brazen skit titled "Penile Dysfunction," playwright Montgomery achieves high-octane laughter with a very naughty sketch between a man (Roberts) and his penis (a hysterical Yosef Mahmood, who might as well pick up his Rogue award right now for Best Supporting Genitalia).

Montgomery achieves solid giddiness in the third installment by structuring the whole conversation in rhyming verse. Without this excess of formality, the whole outing could have become like a bad "Saturday Night Live" sketch. Yet the rhyming adds just enough sophistication to make the banter between the characters seem oh so terribly clever. I do think the last minute of this third play peters out a bit (um, excuse the pun) by getting all lovey-dovey on the audience, but it isn't enough to undo all the raucousness that has come before.

With a cast that revels in the material and two no-holds-barred local playwrights, this is the kind of Rogue show that gets people buzzing.

Playing: 4 p.m. Sunday 3/2, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 3/5 and 7 p.m. Friday 3/7. Cost: $6. Rating: R.

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