Michael Dale’s Theatre Crawl – “By now you have a sense of the downward trajectory that this evening is going to take.”

“Gordon Boudreau, in his guise as the title character of The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes, understands completely if you’re so offended by the tastelessness of his presentation that you choose to get up and leave the theatre.  In fact, he encourages the rest of us to applaud anyone who walks out, in admiration of their good judgement.”

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Michael Dale's Theatre Crawl - What Lenny Bruce And America's First English-Language Playwright Have In Common

Nothing is known of the script for William Darby’s Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe, which gave one performance in 1665 at Fowkes Tavern in Accomack County, Virginia.  But what does remain is the record of a trial held when the playwright/actor and his two co-stars were charged with blasphemy after a sworn statement was submitted by playgoer Edward Martin. 

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