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The Supper Club of Lost Causes
The Supper Club of Lost Causes, part vaudeville and part nightmare, is set in a faded glory supper club in Hawley, Pennsylvania. Such establishments were commonly found along rural highways outside of towns, providing supper and cheap, all-night entertainment, including music and dancing. Some of them had gambling and rooms for travelers, adding to their disreputable allure. They were well past their time by the Jack Benny era, but hung on (at least, in this play) in places like Hawley, PA. Playwright Jim Farmer fills his Supper Club with hapless characters, disorienting theatrics, and pastiche dialogue. The owner of the club and master of ceremonies is in love with the wife of his bandleader. The bandleader is, in turn, infatuated with the owner's protege, a sexy Vietnamese "performance artist" who is fixated on a past lover in California.Throughout, the play satirizes both film noir and Freudian dramas. There is strong mix of surreal comedy and real tenderness.
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