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Sandwich

Banana, Bag & Bodice
review by Robert Avila in SF Bay Guardian March 31, 2004

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Innocence is dead, and cooking shows have not looked the same since Martha Stewart's conviction or Banana, Bag and Bodice's "musical about animals and humans." While awaiting the rehabilitation of the former, you'll be interested to know the latter – a 60-odd-minute burlesque with a cat, a rabbit, and a potato bug – returns to the Exit Theatre unrepentant, even slightly expanded, after premiering at last year's San Francisco Fringe Festival to much applause and wafts of bacon grease. Couched in a cozy environment done up like a cross between a meat locker and Pee Wee's Playhouse, a clownish couple (Jessica Jelliffee and writer-performer Jason Craig) and their morose house cat (Parnell Klug) unpack the harm in the harmless construction of domesticity and lunch. Featuring sly musical accompaniment by David Malloy (Buffalo Knife Man to your left as you come in) and catchy, tuneful sing-alongs like "Poked in the Womb," it's a darkly absurd and satisfying send-up of the so-far futile attempt to declaw human nature.

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