Okay, someone’s going to have to explain to me “noises off” and dinner theater circuit, and also the pig. I mean I have an inkling but that’s about it.
As for “dinner theater”, that’s when a group performs said play in a poorly lit corner of a restaurant during the dinner hour – generally with very little space for the set to be constructed. Which makes “Noises Off” even more tricky to do, because the set is somewhat elaborate.
The play-within-a-play that the characters are putting on is a ridiculous British farce that requires numerous doors (and a window!) for the characters to go in and out of, and stairs for them to go up and down, all at a breakneck pace with split-second timing. The first and third acts take place “onstage” during that show, so the set is just the already rather elaborate set of the play-within-a-play. The second act, though, takes place *backstage* during a performance, so that entire elaborate set is supposed to *turn completely around* so that the audience is now looking at the back of it. And of course, in between all the split-second timing of the play-within-a-play is all the even more split-second timing of the “behind-the-scenes” hijinks going on while they’re trying to put on their “play.”
Good lord, I’m dense. That pig is me! I completely forgot I pledged at the cameo level in the last KickStarter. I even received my box full-o-books last Friday and didn’t piece it together. If I hadn’t had to go to Kickstarter to respond to a survey for an entirely different webcomic and decided to check on this one, I’d probably *still* not have made the connection. *facepalm*
Headcanon: She raised him one rank at a time every time she called him to ask him this before… which implies she called him to ask him this some 10 times
She’s pulling their team together. And working a scheme so clever. From “Noises Off” theater comes a general first-rater. It’s living the dream—if ever.
Mad props to anyone who can successfully run “Noises Off”. I’m fine with making them a general.
And even madder props if they can do it as a dinner theater.
Okay, someone’s going to have to explain to me “noises off” and dinner theater circuit, and also the pig. I mean I have an inkling but that’s about it.
Noises Off is a comedy meta-play about a not particularly great play being performed not particularly well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noises_Off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_theater
As for the pig, I got nuthin but guesses.
As for “dinner theater”, that’s when a group performs said play in a poorly lit corner of a restaurant during the dinner hour – generally with very little space for the set to be constructed. Which makes “Noises Off” even more tricky to do, because the set is somewhat elaborate.
The play-within-a-play that the characters are putting on is a ridiculous British farce that requires numerous doors (and a window!) for the characters to go in and out of, and stairs for them to go up and down, all at a breakneck pace with split-second timing. The first and third acts take place “onstage” during that show, so the set is just the already rather elaborate set of the play-within-a-play. The second act, though, takes place *backstage* during a performance, so that entire elaborate set is supposed to *turn completely around* so that the audience is now looking at the back of it. And of course, in between all the split-second timing of the play-within-a-play is all the even more split-second timing of the “behind-the-scenes” hijinks going on while they’re trying to put on their “play.”
Good lord, I’m dense. That pig is me! I completely forgot I pledged at the cameo level in the last KickStarter. I even received my box full-o-books last Friday and didn’t piece it together. If I hadn’t had to go to Kickstarter to respond to a survey for an entirely different webcomic and decided to check on this one, I’d probably *still* not have made the connection. *facepalm*
Thank you, Shaenon & Jeff!
Well, pig or not, if you successfully ran “Noises Off” as a dinner theatre, my hat is off to you.
Well, maybe it’s more of a “well-greased” force there.
Or does that happen only AFTER the bacon is made?
The answer to that question is as slippery as a greased pig performing Noises Off in jello.
Headcanon: She raised him one rank at a time every time she called him to ask him this before… which implies she called him to ask him this some 10 times
I see Sweetheart is falling into her role as leader of the Resistance every bit as naturally as I expected.
I’d be worried about them being pretty well-oiled in the other sense.
Sweetheart has a notoriously quick recovery rate, so that shouldn’t be a con8
I imagine some of them are out there right now corrupting Jonah Yu and Nera. Unless they’ve turned twenty-one by now.
I believe Jonah and Nera are well past 21 now. It’s been nearly 10 years since we first met them. Nera was driving, and Jonah isn’t much younger.
She’s pulling their team together. And working a scheme so clever. From “Noises Off” theater comes a general first-rater. It’s living the dream—if ever.
A pig version of Kermit the Frog? He may be overqualified.
I fear this army will be mostly generals and no privates.
What, you think they’re all neutered?
(sorry BMunro, couldn’t pass up such a good straight line)
That’s OK, I suspected someone would take that route.
Happy to oblige – the low road has always been my comfort zone.
Panel 2 in today’s strip is almost a kinetograph to yesterday’s. Try flipping back and forth between the two.
It’s a dog’s life—pig’s life—a man’s life in the modern army.