Article: 'Night School' fails to live up to potential.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"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 ...

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