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Article: 'Night School' fails to live up to potential.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 11, 2001
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"Gonzo Night School" at the Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston, through Jan. 21.
Joe Smith is on to something with "Gonzo Night School," his intermittently funny one-man show that is having its premiere at the Boston Playwrights Theatre. Is there a subject riper for parody than the institution known as night school?
And he begins promisingly, arriving onstage dressed as a mime to lead a course on "Mime and Movement" that has, much to his chagrin, been combined with a course in tae kwan do because of low enrollment. He rationalizes that, although incongruous on the surface, the two make sense together because "the notion of physical violence against ...