'Oh, Mary!' Just as Subversively Hilarious on Tour at SF's Curran as It Was on Broadway
9 / 10
What's brilliant about Escola's tightly constructed, 75-minute play is that, even with all the raunchy jokes and camp sensibility, it sits just on the edgier fringe of mainstream humor — especially when we live in a time when the mainstream includes things like Rupaul's Drag Race and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And while it might still make some older, more straight-laced audience members bristle, it has succeeded in drawing people in to its Off-Broadway subversiveness and its goofy re-rendering of a sacred chapter of American history.
