Two days of sub-par theatre.

This was a weekend full of sub-standard theatre.

First was the Prairie Fire Children's Theatre which came to my children's school. Now in general I would say that PFCT is not exactly theatre of the highest calibre, but the production of Peter Pan that they produced was so dreadful that I couldn't really enjoy watching my own children in it. (And of course I went to all three performances.)

Past PFCT performances have at least been lively or entertaining in some way. But this show was really quite afwul.

I got to wrap up my weekend my seeing a university production of the musical Honk! I'd heard about the show but had never seen it nor heard the score. The singing was pretty good, and the dancing lively and appropriate; the production values were incredibly high and the costumes were really exquisite, but the acting was wooden and the direction lacking, to say the least.

I've heard such good things about the show itself, but based on what I saw, I would find it difficult to say that it's a worthy musical.

I've had a difficult time getting enthused about directing the one act play (not that I don't want to, I'm just overwhelmed with other things going on right now) and these two shows did nothing to build theatrical creativity inside of me.