Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot, if it can be called that, is harmless enough. One Don Pepe Hernandez, a would-be impresario in the tiny Honduran coastal town of Trujillo, has rented a decrepit nightclub with money from his uncle, the owner of the local Coca-Cola bottling plant. His show, which he calls La Parada de Estrellas, or Parade of Stars, is advertised as featuring "international cabaret stars," who turn out to be four members of his family wearing various transparent disguises. The play consists of one full run-through of Hernandez's show...
...something has lured you into Keep Your Pantheon, a semi-valid question remains of what you will see. No one, at least, is under any obligation to take the thing seriously, so the first thing to do is thank God that this is not last year, and that a plot, whatever its faults, exists this year, which is more than could be said for last year's Bewitched Bayou. There is not now and never has been any danger of any Pudding script being printed in an anthology of great plays or musicals, but in some years the demands...
...plot, what there is of it, involves classical mythology, specifically, Hera's displeasure at Zeus's chasing a girl, Swoedipus. The girl is banished to a desert island, cleverly named Isle of Lucy, from which she is rescued by Androgen, her human lover, after he has consulted various oracles, performed various labors, and, appropriately, suffered. With domineering females made to look stupid, with retarded juvenile and cardboard characters floating around and with the chorus line, the show has what most Pudding audiences like...
...show is its kick line, and this year's show has one, of course, dragged kicking into the middle of the second act, in no way integral to the rest of the show--a bizarre but apparently welcome intrusion that would have killed any momentum in the plot (but luckily it had none...
...added attraction to newcomers, the libretto is translated from the German into English, so the weak plot can at least be understood. A rescue from a heathen harem may not be improbable, but the ending of the story is. The clever translation tightens the dialogue, and fits the comic intentions of the author. ("He is but an honest simple soul"/"His head belongs upon the pole...