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Mr. Marmalade - Acting Edition

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This play is freaking hilarious. I can't stop laughing. A nice combination of dark humor and absurdist moments. Suicide, cocaine and porn are all thrust upon the innocence of children. When you catch your breath from laughing for a second, you realize there are some important themes that can be dissected.

I read this play for the first time today and I loved it. The moments of absurdity, insanity and dark humor are wonderfully funny and the play in its entirety is endlessly amusing. I'd love to attend a performance of this play some day! Despite its seeming insanity, when one thinks of the play having finished it, there is much meaning to be savored.

This play is an envelope-pushing gem. I really enjoyed it. It's pretty much what you'd expect from reading the synopsis. Haidle writes a pressing and perturbing world built to let us experience the oft-spoken about but rarely well-articulated idea that "the kids aren't alright". A pertinent, clever, and surreal comedy for these modern times.

Definitely not for theaters in Church basement or Children's Theatre. But this is just downright genius writing. Funny, crazy, rude but very real.