The combined efforts of the Lakeport Community Players and the Lake County Repertory Theater companies have produced several interesting stages pieces in the last year, including
Nunsense, a musical revolving around the silliness of stage-struck nuns, and
Fiddler on the Roof, a musical which used the very-human silliness of Eastern European Jews to great comedic effect. I was expecting the next production to be
Flower Drum Song, but I am occasionally too cynical. When the decision was made about the next production, it turned out to be the much less well-known
Incorruptible.
Incorruptible is not a musical, I have to say. It is a comedic drama about monks in the Middle Ages forced to sell bones supposedly of saints in order for their monastery to survive, and the humour comes from a cynicism more global than mine. The last scene, the last few lines of dialogue, miraculously blunts the cynicism of the play's premise, and any true believer who was offended up to that point will just have to get over it.
