Cab’s ‘Babs’ makes us sad
It was not until the very end that I noticed the full title of this week’s Cabaret show: “Babs the Dodo — a sad comedy.”
And a sad comedy it was. Though it begins uproariously with the antics of the titular character Babs Gillespie (Liz Wisan DRA ’10) — a charming and seemingly happy woman who sells jewelry on the Shopping Channel — the show, written and directed by Michael Mitnick DRA ’10, quickly dives into depressing tragedy as we learn that Babs, a lonely divorcée, spends her 50th birthday on a date arranged online. Babs is then systematically degraded over the course of the...
Interesting... could the dodo bird perhaps symbolize something deeper and darker about the human condition....